Hi Tony,

thanks, I tried playing around with Master/Sub ('inserting sub documents').

However I've realized that after a user writes a shift-note, they can then protect it ... but this is done by creating the password. Therefore they will always be able to go back and alter the document in the future. I don't actually want this -- we need it to be written once, then protected from future changes by anyone.

I'm starting to think this is just not possible with Word :-(