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by S25vd2xlZGdlU2Vla2Vy » Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:02:02 GMT

Does anyone know how to prevent the user from editing a merged document created by an application?
We use a dot net application to create a mail merge and when the user chose so can view the merged document with all the bookmarks populated with appropriate data. The user does not want to be able to edit the merge document. Is there any way to control that through the word object model in dot net or through IE? After the document is composed it is displayed to the user through a browser redirection. So if we can't disable editing in Word can we do in Internet Explorer?
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Word VBA >> How to prevent editing on a merged document based on a dot templa

by Jean-Guy Marcil » Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:47:47 GMT


Bonjour,

Dans son message, < KnowledgeSeeker > rivait :


|| Does anyone know how to prevent the user from editing a merged document
created by an
|| application?
|| We use a dot net application to create a mail merge and when the user
chose so can view the
|| merged document with all the bookmarks populated with appropriate data.
The user does not want
|| to be able to edit the merge document. Is there any way to control that
through the word object
|| model in dot net or through IE? After the document is composed it is
displayed to the user
|| through a browser redirection. So if we can't disable editing in Word can
we do in Internet
|| Explorer? Thanks --
|| KnowledgeSeeker

The short answer is that if I can see it I can edit it...

Just to remind the user that the document should not be edited, you can
protect it for forms with a password. This is not a secure method... Just a
gentle reminder to the user that this document is for viewing only.

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Salut!
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org





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