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

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Thanks for letting me know Klaus.

This does exactly what I needed it to do.

Perhaps I was too hasty in my criticism of the Word API though I do think
the documentation available is rather poor and it is rather difficult to find
things like this.

Once again, thanks for taking the time to let me know.

Regards,
Vincent.

"fotosatz_kaufmann@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> The functionality wasn't missing after all... I was too stupid to find
> it.
>
> Beth Melton just posted the answer after the question came up in
> another group:
> ActiveWindow.View.ShadeEditableRanges = False
>
> Thank you, Beth!
> 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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