hi David,

To be able to lock (ie protect) only certain parts of a document, you're presumably using forms protection and Section breaks.

In that case, a Document_Open macro in the document's 'This Document' module could be used to unprotect the Sections that shouldn't be locked. This could be extended to unlocking formfields, etc, if you use them. A Document_Close macro would reverse the process. If the user prevents macros from running, they wouldn't get access to the editable Sections.

As for automatically closing the document, that would require a macro - which would be susceptible to the same macro permission issue.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]