Re: Turn off highlighting of editable regions when a document is p

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I agree. It's the same with most features that came after Word97: multiple selections, table and list styles, protection, task panes...

Perhaps the marketing slogan of "full VBA compatibility" between versions was more important than proper support for the new features.

The other alternative (that Microsoft is slowly pulling the plug on programmability) is too bad to contemplate.

Regards,
Klaus


"Vincent Croft" wrote:
> Thanks Klaus.
>
> Every time we try to do some Word automation there always seems to be
> something missing: functionality only partially exposed with a crucial
> feature missing or having to jump through hoops to achieve something that
> should be trivial. It is a pity that the protection support released with
> Word 2003 seems to be only half-baked in terms of its use via the API.
>
> "Klaus Linke" wrote:
>
> > "Vincent Croft" wrote:
> > > When I protect a document programmatically, Word automatically highlights
> > > unprotected content. Whilst this can be turned off via the Protect Document
> > > pane, I cannot find any documentation about how to do this programmatically.
> > > Even if the change is made manually, when the document is re-opened
> > > highlighting returns!
> > >
> >
> > Hi Vincent,
> >
> > Sorry, there doesn't seem to be any way to do this, neither in VBA nor through built-in commands.
> >
> > I'd tell http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp that you need the ability to do this programmatically.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Klaus
> >
.

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