Section locking - differences between Word 97, XP and 2003?

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Matt Hocker

I am reviewing an application which currently uses locking for automatically
generated (from a VB wizard) sections of a document, yet allows editing of
other areas. However, it seems that in Word 97, this feature disables the
change tracking features.

The client is considering an upgrade to either XP or 2003. Do either do away
with this limitation?
 
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Cindy M -WordMVP-

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I am reviewing an application which currently uses locking for automatically
generated (from a VB wizard) sections of a document, yet allows editing of
other areas. However, it seems that in Word 97, this feature disables the
change tracking features.

The client is considering an upgrade to either XP or 2003. Do either do away
with this limitation?
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No. And yes. Forms protection behaves the same way in all versions of Word: you
track changes can't be used with forms protection.

Word 2003, however, introduced a new kind of protection, similar to what Excel
has: You can protect the entire document, then select ranges of text and make
them available for editing. At the very basic level, it's an on-off thing. If
Rights Management is installed on a server, you can even say WHO may edit what.

Another advantage this has over form fields is that formatting and other
commands (track changes) are supported in the freely editable areas.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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