Microsoft Office Forums

Go Back   Microsoft Office Forums > >

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 05-23-2014, 10:28 AM
Ulodesk Ulodesk is offline Specifying a user in restricted editing Windows 7 64bit Specifying a user in restricted editing Office 2013
Word 2013 Expert Cert
Specifying a user in restricted editing
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Virginia
Posts: 866
Ulodesk is on a distinguished road
Default Specifying a user in restricted editing

Working on my 2013 Expert cert here. MOS study guide is not clear on how to specify a user after having selected part of a document (which, by the way, the guide designates incorrectly as a "section") in which to allow the user full editing. In the practice document downloaded from MS, the instruction is, "Specify settings so that only comments are permitted, but set up an exception so that you can edit the second section [sic] of the document."



The doc properties show the author as jpierce. I have tried using both that name and my user name as shown in Word/Options/General. In either case, Word responded, "Some of the users you have entered have not been added to the list because their names could not be verified." I tried entering my email address, and it thought that was just fine -- but I don't want to send it to myself, nor am I working on SharePoint, which, I presume, might recognize a user by email address.

Would some please clarify this for me? Thanks.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 05-24-2014, 12:56 AM
macropod's Avatar
macropod macropod is offline Specifying a user in restricted editing Windows 7 32bit Specifying a user in restricted editing Office 2010 32bit
Administrator
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Canberra, Australia
Posts: 21,956
macropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond reputemacropod has a reputation beyond repute
Default

Having not seem the MOS study guide, I can't really say why it's using 'section'; perhaps its a legacy of the formfield days where, to have an editable portion in a protected document, it had to be in an unprotected Section.

As for the problem of applying user-based read-only editing exceptions, you might be able to achieve what you're after by creating a dummy user account on your PC then specifying yourself or that user as the one entitled to do the edits.
__________________
Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 05-24-2014, 12:09 PM
Ulodesk Ulodesk is offline Specifying a user in restricted editing Windows 7 64bit Specifying a user in restricted editing Office 2013
Word 2013 Expert Cert
Specifying a user in restricted editing
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Virginia
Posts: 866
Ulodesk is on a distinguished road
Default No such luck

I tried your suggestion, but it failed to produce any different result. Thanks for the idea, though.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Specifying a user in restricted editing Highlighting from Restricted Editing Invicta Word 3 11-08-2012 06:05 AM
Specifying a user in restricted editing Restricted Formatting & Editing dani Word 1 11-08-2012 01:09 AM
Specifying a user in restricted editing Restricted Styles go wierd on different machines MrMadders Word 2 06-01-2012 08:37 AM
Specifying a user in restricted editing Restricted Fonts—but which ones? Phrixos Office 6 02-17-2012 07:39 PM
automatic quantity updation of total amount is restricted. aligahk06 Excel 0 05-23-2010 08:39 AM

Other Forums: Access Forums

All times are GMT -7. The time now is 02:32 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Search Engine Optimisation provided by DragonByte SEO (Lite) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2024 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.
MSOfficeForums.com is not affiliated with Microsoft