See the following page of fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website:
http://www.gmayor.com/Form_Fields_and_Mail_Merge.htm
Note, that to protect a Mail Merge Main Document for filling in Forms, you will need to use a macro containing the following code
Sub ProtectForm()
Dim pword As String
With ActiveDocument
If .ProtectionType = wdNoProtection Then
.Protect wdAllowOnlyFormFields, NoReset = True, "password"
Options.ButtonFieldClicks = 1
Else
.Unprotect ("password")
End If
End With
End Sub
As you can no longer do it via the Developer or Revies tab Protect Document facility.
-- Hope this helps.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP,
dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org
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"Tomthetrainer" wrote in message news:e08c5e7a-d648-40ad-9399-011a0ef46c1b@communitybridge.codeplex.com...
We set up a form that brings in the mail merge fields(customer details) that then allows the user's to select drop down boxes, check boxes etc, we cannot get this to work in 2007 without changing the form to a normal document and then locking the
form. The users aren't very technical and this is a long and laborious task, it worked fine in all other versions of word, please help this is driving me crazy.
Thanks
Doug Robbins - Word MVP dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org
