Thread: [Solved] Help protecting word template
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Old 12-09-2017, 04:00 AM
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The 'template' you're describing is a mailmerge main document. You cannot apply editing restrictions to such a document.

You could apply a password for modifying the file, setting the 'read-only recommended' property, or apply the Windows read-only attribute to the file, but all of those only prevent an unauthorised user saving any changes they make; it does not prevent the user making changes, then running a mailmerge with those changes in place.
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