Protecting a section(s) (VBA Word 2000)

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I know how to protect a section using the Protect method, but I could not find any way to specify which sections of a multisection document you want to protect. Say I only want to protect section 1 and leave section 2 unprotected. The Protect method only seems to apply to the Document object (i.e. not the Sections collection).

The good news is that it appears to protect whatever was protected previously if you selected the sections manually. This is a good workaround, I guess. But for future use, if I wanted to start with a document that had never been protected previously and select which section, is it possible to do that with VBA?

Thanks!!
Troy

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Troy, I only have W97 here, and it only protects forms on a section by section basis, so
ActiveDocument.Sections(2).ProtectedForForms = True
is OK.

Can you protect a single section of a W2k document with the menus?
–Sam

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That method would work, except I need to be able to NOT reset field values and to specify a password. Both of those options are available with the Protect method, but neither seem to be available for the property you mentioned.

Any other ideas?

Thanks!!
Troy

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I just tested this on Word 2000 by creating a simple document with two sections and a formfield in the second section.

I issued the commands

ActiveDocument.Sections(1).ProtectedForForms = False
ActiveDocument.Sections(2).ProtectedForForms = True

At this point the document is NOT protected for forms. I have just told Word which sections should be protected later
Then I typed

ActiveDocument.Protect type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields 

and now the second section was protected but the first one still allowed me to edit whatever I wanted.

StuartR

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Great idea!! That should do me!

Troy

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