Protection bounces user to top of document

[aedmyr]

I've protected a Word document with some forms inside it. Clicking outside the forms immediately returns the cursor to the very top of the document.



Accidentally clicking outside a form forces the user to scroll back down through seventeen pages to find the form they're completing.

Is there a way to prevent this behavior?

[Charles Kenyon]

Not really. If you can train your users to use the Tab key instead of the mouse to navigate the form, it can help. That assumes you've set your form up so that the tab key moves logically from field to field.

[aedmyr]

The problem is easy to fix. It's possible to fill out forms and save the document even when the 'No changes (read-only)' protection option is selected. That option won't bounce the user back to the top of the document, the way the 'Allow changes to forms' option will.

I stumbled on this and was surprised and pleased. I don't know what Microsoft's coders were thinking, incorporating the other "feature". I can't imagine any reason why anybody would ever want their users kicked to the top of a document just because they clicked in the wrong place.