I have considered the approach of setting the enabled property of the formfields in section 1 to False, but this also stops a user from selecting the text so they may copy it, and I would like to avoid this if I can. The fields in the form are legacy Text Form Fields and Checkboxes (rather than the content controls found in Word 2003 and above - this is out of necessity). When section 1 has been completed, a button is pressed which locks that section against any further alterations (read only), leaving section 2 as protected for forms so it can be completed by someone else. My goal is that I have a form in Word that starts off as protected for forms. So far I have not been able to find any suggestion this is even possible, so I am hoping someone either knows how I can achieve this or can be offer a different approach? I only seem to be able to do one or the other or I can restrict editing (for Filling in Forms) to one section and leave the other section completely unprotected, but this is not what I want. I need to protect the first section of the form for No changes (Read only), whilst keeping the second section restricted to 'Filling in forms'. I have a word document (a form) that contains two sections.
