Password protect savedate field in Word 2002

I use a savedate field in the footer of numerous Word 2002 documents. The
documents need to be editable by coworkers, but I would like to be able to
password protect just the savedate field in the footer so that others cannot
delete or change it.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Hi Louise,

You can protect the document header & footer by inserting a Section break at the start of the document, then protect the document
for forms and selecting only the first section for protection.

However, I doubt this will be very useful. Quite apart from the fact that protecting a document for forms places many limitations on
what editing can be done even in the unprotected sections, the fact remains that the value for the SAVEDATE field will automatically
update whenever the document is saved and, unless you also lock the field (Ctrl-F11), the displayed date will change next time the
document is opened/printed. About the most you'll have achieved is preventing the field from being deleted. Perhaps a CREATEDATE
field would be more suitable?

Cheers
--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
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"Louise" <Louise@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C7B63210-8C19-4B89-A8E5-FAB80C1566F7@microsoft.com...
>I use a savedate field in the footer of numerous Word 2002 documents. The
> documents need to be editable by coworkers, but I would like to be able to
> password protect just the savedate field in the footer so that others cannot
> delete or change it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:16:02 -0800, Louise <Louise@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I use a savedate field in the footer of numerous Word 2002 documents. The
>documents need to be editable by coworkers, but I would like to be able to
>password protect just the savedate field in the footer so that others cannot
>delete or change it.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,

What you ask for isn't possible.

You can use the macro technique in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...PlusHeader.htm to
prevent access to the entire footer (presuming the users allow macros to run),
but there's no way to protect a specific field.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

This might be workable if I insert the savedate field in the HEADER and
protect just the header. I actually do want the date to update when saved.
The problem I'm having is people deleting the savedate and putting in a
different, hard date field, or even just typing in a date.

Thanks for the idea.
--
Louise


"macropod" wrote:

> Hi Louise,
>
> You can protect the document header & footer by inserting a Section break at the start of the document, then protect the document
> for forms and selecting only the first section for protection.
>
> However, I doubt this will be very useful. Quite apart from the fact that protecting a document for forms places many limitations on
> what editing can be done even in the unprotected sections, the fact remains that the value for the SAVEDATE field will automatically
> update whenever the document is saved and, unless you also lock the field (Ctrl-F11), the displayed date will change next time the
> document is opened/printed. About the most you'll have achieved is preventing the field from being deleted. Perhaps a CREATEDATE
> field would be more suitable?
>
> Cheers
> --
> macropod
> [MVP - Microsoft Word]
> -------------------------
>
> "Louise" <Louise@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C7B63210-8C19-4B89-A8E5-FAB80C1566F7@microsoft.com...
> >I use a savedate field in the footer of numerous Word 2002 documents. The
> > documents need to be editable by coworkers, but I would like to be able to
> > password protect just the savedate field in the footer so that others cannot
> > delete or change it.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
>

That's what I was afraid of. Macropod has given me the idea for a possible
work-around that I'm going to work on.

Thanks
--
Louise


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:16:02 -0800, Louise <Louise@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I use a savedate field in the footer of numerous Word 2002 documents. The
> >documents need to be editable by coworkers, but I would like to be able to
> >password protect just the savedate field in the footer so that others cannot
> >delete or change it.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks,
>
> What you ask for isn't possible.
>
> You can use the macro technique in
> http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...PlusHeader.htm to
> prevent access to the entire footer (presuming the users allow macros to run),
> but there's no way to protect a specific field.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
>