Hi,

I'm creating a template document for our company. The header has 2 pictures which I am desperately trying to lock so that no one can move or delete them. But I can't restrict editing on the whole header because the header also has a "title" field which obviously needs to be edited by who ever uses the template.
Same for the footer, there is an image I need to lock, but also a "date" field that needs to be edited by whoever creates a document.

I tried the "section break" trick to restrict area of editing but it locks the whole header. I also tried creating a Picture Content Control box but I can't place the title field where it needs to go.

Any ideas, anyone?

If your layout allows for you to have the title and date appear somewhere in the document body, you could apply a unique Style name to each of those ranges and use STYLEREF fields in the header & footer to replicate the data. You could then couple that with the "section break" trick, since no-one would need to access the actual header or footer.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]