Word XP: Problems with unprotecting document

[MattJpopo]

On of our HR users is having a problem with their Word XP application. She has a employee profile form for each employee that has drop down fields for values such as employment status, departments and other such items. She is updating all of the seasonal employees to terminated but when she goes to unprotect the form to make changes the drop down fields are no longer available to her. If she tries to protect the form again not only are the fields not available but the data is completely gone as well.

Can someone help, she needs to be able to unprotect the form and be able to update the fields and then protect the form once again.

Matt

 

[Dreamboat]

Word XP is supposed to allow you to do that.

But you could come up with some derivation of the macro I've got at:

http://www.thewordexpert.com/downloads.htm#MyFormSpeller

It unprotects, spell-checks, then reprotects the form. Just break the code into two macros: One that unprotects, and one that reprotects. Put the macros into her normal.dot until she's done all the updates...

Heck, depending how many, a macro could be created that'd change the value for her too.

Macro literate? If not, there's people who know how...

Also, 'cause XP is supposed to do this, make sure the files are saved as XP and try again; or you might need to go to Tools-Options, Save tab, and UNCHECK the bit about not using features that weren't available in... Anne Troy
Dreamboat@TheWordExpert.com
Anne@MrExcel.com

 

[MattJpopo]

Thanks, things are working just fine now.