Hi Guys,

There are two document "protections" in MS Word. One is to password protect a whole document, and the other is to protect a "form", in other words a data entry document.

You can open a "form protected" document (or you wouldn't be able to fill it out?) , but are restricted to entering data into the designated boxes. Other boxes may be protected from you..............I am inclined to give M$ the benefit of the doubt, as I have always looked on form protection as a way of preventing people screwing up the form, rather than a true "security" measure.

The way I have generally used them is the user fills out their bits and returns it to Admin or whoever who then fill in the rest.............they already have the password, so there is no real security issue.

Cheers