Doubly interesting to *me* :-)
I wonder if it's only Word 2007 that triggers the bug? Or only .docx?
Probably not worth chasing, given that SR 1 should resolve the issue when
it
appears.
Cheers
On 9/05/08 9:13 PM, in article 59b4d0a6.5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"daisyo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <daisyo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> This is interesting since my do***ents were created in a previous
version of
> Word(2003), have protected areas, and are writable.
>
>> Hi Daisy:
>>
>> Nice article :-) Yes, we knew where it was. The bug is that it doesn't
>> "work" :-)
>>
>> If you get a do***ent from a different version of Word, with "any"
sections
>> protected, the entire do***ent will be unwritable in Word 2008. That's
the
>> bug.
>>
>> The only work-around we have found so far is to send the do***ent to a
PC
>> version of Word and use that to release the protection.
>>
>> Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> On 9/05/08 2:00 AM, in article 59b4d0a6.3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> "daisyo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, the option to allow some sections of a do***ent to remain
unlocked
>>> (and editable) does exist in Word 2008, just not in a place you would
expect
>>> to find it. I posted my solution here:
>>>> -word-2008/>
>>>
>>> I'd love to see the auto spell check come back but at least the manual
spell
>>> check still works so there is a work around. I don't expect the
protected
>>> areas or the contents of form fields to be included in a spell check,
just
>>> the
>>> text in the unprotected areas of the do***ent.
>>>
>>>> Hi Bob:
>>>>
>>>> Some of this might come back in the Service Release. There is a bug
in Word
>>>> 2008 where the whole do***ent goes Read-Only if any of the sections
are
>>>> protected.
>>>>
>>>> If they get that one solved, then spell-checking should work in any
>>>> writable
>>>> part of the do***ent.
>>>>
>>>> However, I believe that when the do***ent is protected for Forms, the
>>>> spell-checker should be disabled in the protected regions. Could be
>>>> wrong...
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> On 8/05/08 2:08 PM, in article
C447F4E8.3A6EC%onlygeneraltaz1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> "CyberTaz" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/7/08 11:43 PM, in article C448B3FD.14934%john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"John
>>>>> McGhie" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> That's an "Improvement" :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The previous version disables all spell-checking in a protected
do***ent,
>>>>>> because it used to crash Word when the spelling checker hit an area
it
>>>>>> wasn't allowed to write to.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> All the more perplexing because auto spell check has worked in text
form
>>>>> fields & protected docs in PC Word at least as far back as 2003:>}
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards |:>)
>>>>> Bob Jones
>>>>> [MVP] Office:Mac
>>>>>
>>>>
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