Quickly...



the typing REF thing you mentioned was how I tried to do it. It didn't work in the slightest. Just disappeared, as described earlier, when I restricted editing. Before that, it didn't reference anything, ever.

It won't do anything when you first create it and, as for the disappearing upon protection, if whatever its referencing is empty I would expect the reference to be empty too (i.e. to disappear). That's perfectly normal. That said, 'empty' formfields normally contain a series of spaces (i.e. unless you change the default).

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Paul Edstein
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Another problem.

On my home computer, as I try this again, when I reach the point to Restrict Editing, I go through the steps, checking the box, the drop-down...

And the "Yes, Start Enforcing Protection" button is grayed out. Why would this happen?