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Old 11-04-2012, 02:59 PM
Andrew H Andrew H is offline Windows 7 32bit Office 2010 32bit
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Hi Andrew,

Forms protection with formfields is required by design. In part it's so the user can't makes edits other than what the designer intends/allows - including deleting the formfields.
OK - makes sense.

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On-entry and on-exit macros will only run when the document is protected.
OK, that news to me, but thanks: that explains why my macro would not run.

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If you want to allow free text entry somewhere else in the document, insert Section breaks before & after that portion, then leave that Section unprotected when you apply the forms protection.
Thanks, but this does not solve my problem. And the reason is this: I need to be able to have "locked" fields and "unlocked" text in the same line. It appears that I cannot insert section breaks "inside" a given line.
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