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Unprotecting a footer in a protected document
One of our medical forms must have an identical footer on each page containing the patient name and ID number. The patient name and ID are entered by the user of the form. The document is protected which has caused the footer to be unavailable for updating. Am I missing something in the set up of the form sections? Can the footer be indentified as a section in the protected document and therefore be left unprotected? Please advise.
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Unprotecting a footer in a protected document
I assume that the patient name and ID are being entered into a formfield in
the body of the document. If that is the case, check the calculate on exit property of those formfields and in the footer of the document, insert a cross reference to the text of the bookmarks assigned to those formfields. Then when you protect the document and the user enters the name and ID and exits from those fields, the cross reference in the footer will be updated to show the information. -- Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Stephanie" wrote in message ... One of our medical forms must have an identical footer on each page containing the patient name and ID number. The patient name and ID are entered by the user of the form. The document is protected which has caused the footer to be unavailable for updating. Am I missing something in the set up of the form sections? Can the footer be indentified as a section in the protected document and therefore be left unprotected? Please advise. |
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Unprotecting a footer in a protected document
I have followed the steps below and it works well but only if the document is left unprotected and the update field option is used in the footer. If the document is protected the footer does not update from the cross referenced fields. What have I done incorrectly or missed? I appreciate your assistance!
----- Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: ----- I assume that the patient name and ID are being entered into a formfield in the body of the document. If that is the case, check the calculate on exit property of those formfields and in the footer of the document, insert a cross reference to the text of the bookmarks assigned to those formfields. Then when you protect the document and the user enters the name and ID and exits from those fields, the cross reference in the footer will be updated to show the information. -- Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Stephanie" wrote in message ... One of our medical forms must have an identical footer on each page containing the patient name and ID number. The patient name and ID are entered by the user of the form. The document is protected which has caused the footer to be unavailable for updating. Am I missing something in the set up of the form sections? Can the footer be indentified as a section in the protected document and therefore be left unprotected? Please advise. |
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Unprotecting a footer in a protected document
Are you tabbing out of the field after changing it? Other means of leaving
the field may not trigger the updating. Otherwise, I have used a StyleRef field successfully with the subject information having a unique character style format (that looks just like the underlying paragraph format). -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Stephanie" wrote in message ... I have followed the steps below and it works well but only if the document is left unprotected and the update field option is used in the footer. If the document is protected the footer does not update from the cross referenced fields. What have I done incorrectly or missed? I appreciate your assistance! ----- Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: ----- I assume that the patient name and ID are being entered into a formfield in the body of the document. If that is the case, check the calculate on exit property of those formfields and in the footer of the document, insert a cross reference to the text of the bookmarks assigned to those formfields. Then when you protect the document and the user enters the name and ID and exits from those fields, the cross reference in the footer will be updated to show the information. -- Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Stephanie" wrote in message ... One of our medical forms must have an identical footer on each page containing the patient name and ID number. The patient name and ID are entered by the user of the form. The document is protected which has caused the footer to be unavailable for updating. Am I missing something in the set up of the form sections? Can the footer be indentified as a section in the protected document and therefore be left unprotected? Please advise. |
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Unprotecting a footer in a protected document
That's exactly it, thank you. It 's such a small thing but what a big impact!
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