Can't Edit Word Document 1

[tinkertech]

I have this word document that I can open and view fine but when opened, I can't navegate though the document using arrows or enter or space bar. The cursor just hangs around the second line of the document. It came to me from work in an email in rich text format then I saved it as word document but still will not edit. any ideas how to over come this?

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[macropod]

Hi tinkertech,

Your description fits a protected document. You can check this via Tools|Protect/Unprotect Document. If the Unprotect option appears instead of the Protect option, the document is protected.

You may be able to Unprotect the document just by clicking on the Unprotect option.

Cheers

 

[tf1]

If the protection is password protected, close the document, open a new blank document and then use Insert, File to insert the protected document and it will be unprotected now.


Regards: tf1

 

[tinkertech]

Thanks for the tips. The first tip took care of the problem. I had forgotten about protection; I thought read-only was the answer.

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[bkrike]

Nice tip tf1-
I've been working with word for years and never knew that one. A star for you.

 

[eman6]

OK, gents, now that we are in this subject:
I have a document with two sections. The cover page is section one.
I need to prevent people from modifying the cover page (first page of the document).
If I select Tools_ProtectDocument_Protect for forms and and then select section one, it does the job, BUT plenty of functions all over the menus are not available any more.

Is there a way to block one section without disabling all these functions?

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[tf1]

Tell me you have Word 2003 and I'll give you a simple way of doing it. Otherwise it is going to be far more complex!



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[eman6]

Go ahead please!
I have Word 2000 at work, and Word XP (2002) at home and I am currently considering Office 2003.
This might alone be an interesting feature

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[tf1]

In Word 2003, you can open the Protection Dialog and Options in the Task Pane. It allows you to protect for Read Only as in previous versions but you can also select areas of a write protected document and allow users (you can specify all or just particualr user(s)) to edit these sections.

In the case you mention, you would select everything after the front page as mark as freely editable so just the first page is write protected. You don't need to make Page 1 a separate section, you can use the Different First page option in File, Page Setup, Layout tab.

However, we are still woring on the developers to change the way that Forms Protection works. It is excellent that you can set Forms Protect to just particular sections, but then - as you have noted - it stops many functions working throughout the whole document, including editing the Headers and Footers. Most annoyingly, it stops the F11 function tabbing from Form Box to Form Box. How daft is that?


Regards: tf1

 

[eman6]

No kidding!!
This is definitely an interesting feature, unless adding this feature has created a few hundred bugs in other places.

Has Microsoft changed their Word developpers team?

By the way, have you noticed VBA differences between Excel and Word (and certainly other products too)? Looks like the two teams had NOTHING to do with each other, or they were really enemies

Long live Microsoft!!

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