Protecting or hiding ASK fields

[SaneMan]

Hello

I have a document with a bunch of ASK fields at the top of the first page. This document will be used by several people and I have tried to find a way of hiding these fields. I know you can use hidden text but this feature is already being used in the document and will be switched on and off by the people using the document to display instructions.



Is there a way of hiding the fields outside of the document? Or even the ability to hide a whole page or protect a whole page or these particular fields?

Lastly, could these ASK fields be incorporated into a macro if none of the above are possible?

Thanks,

[macropod]

Hi Saneman,

ASK fields are ordinarily invisible, unless you toggle the field code display 'on' (eg by pressing Alt-F9). You can't really prevent users doing this.

If you've got Word configured to display bookmarks, that too will show where the ASK fields are located). You can't really prevent users doing this either.

As a rule, the safest place to put ASK fields is in the page header or footer, where they'll be less likely to be clobbered by clumsy editing.