Re: How do I protect a document that will be a mail merge?

From: Doug Robbins (dkr_at_NOmvpsSPAM.org)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 19:12:39 -0500

No, it is not possible.

You could perform the merge to a new document, then use a macro to split
that document into separate documents for each recipient and apply
protection to them and the perform a mailmerge to email with attachments,
using the procedure in the article "Mail Merge to E-mail with Attachments"
at

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm

To split the original document and save it with names from the data source
(which will also be used in the above procedure, here's a method that I have
used that involves creating a separate
catalog type mailmerge maindocument which creates a word document containing
a table in each row of which would be your data from the database that you
want to use as the filename.

You first execute that mailmerge, then save that file and close it. Then
execute the mailmerge that you want to create the separate files from and
with the
result of that on the screen, run a macro containing the following code
and when the File open dialog appears, select the file containing the table
created by the first mailmerge

' Throw Away Macro created by Doug Robbins
'
Dim Source As Document, oblist As Document, DocName As Range, DocumentName
As String
Dim i As Long, doctext As Range, target As Document
Set Source = ActiveDocument
With Dialogs(wdDialogFileOpen)
    .Show
End With
Set oblist = ActiveDocument
Counter = 1
For i = 1 To oblist.Tables(1).Rows.Count
    Set DocName = oblist.Tables(1).Cell(i, 1).Range
    DocName.End = DocName.End - 1

    'Change the path in the following command to suit where you want to save
the documents.
    DocumentName = "I:\WorkArea\Documentum\" & DocName.Text
    Set doctext = Source.Sections(i).Range
    doctext.End = doctext.End - 1
    Set target = Documents.Add
    target.Range.FormattedText = doctext
    target.SaveAs FileName:=DocumentName
    target.Close
Next i 

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"em ; )" <em ; )@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:22C1DF16-0363-46ED-A222-170522AA0714@microsoft.com...
>I need to protect a form that is to be mail merged into an email.  My 
>protect
> area is grayed as soon as a begin inserting the mail merge.
> Is this not possible?

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