Growing tables in protected form?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

thewriteguy wonders: <<Is there a way in Word to allow a user to add 
rows to a table in a protected form? A client has a form with tables 
that tend to grow tremendously sometimes in the number of rows of 
details required of the submitter.>>

I'm not aware of any such way, but suspect that a quick skim through 
the online help will reveal how to protect some table cells   and leave 
the others open.

But given that material prepared for public consumption should always 
be reviewed by a second set of eyes (preferably an editor) before 
"going live", there's a simple alternative: revision tracking. If you 
trust the user not to cheat, simply enable revision tracking under the 
Tools menu so that any changes will be visible to the editor/reviewer. 
After reviewing the changes, you then approve them to implement the 
changes.

If you don't trust your users, try Tools-->Protect document, then 
select tracked changes. This provides weak protection that prevents 
naive or impatient users from entering changes without letting anyone 
see what they've done. A skilled or patient user can generally figure 
out how to break much of this protection (depending on the version of 
Word you're using) and can work around much of the protection, even if 
you add a password. But it at least discourages casual abuse.

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(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
www.geoff-hart.com
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