I am looking to make a letterhead for my company. Right now I currently have an image within the header of the document and an image within the footer of the document.
Is there any way I can lock these portions of the page so that other users cannot edit the header or footer?
Thank you.
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Can't take credit for this but I found this forum post from user 'Mike' at http://help.wugnet.com/office/lock-header-MS-Word-ftopict1151220.html
- Display the Developer Tab on the ribbon. (Open word options, then clickthe check-box in the Popular section.)
- With your template open, navigate to the Developer tab.
- Click the Protect Document button. (You should see a sidebar.)
- Under Editing Restrictions, click 'Allow only this type of editing in thedocument' and set the dropdown to 'No changes (Read only)'
- Click somewhere in your template that isn't the header/footer and holdCtrl-A to select all.
- Under the Exceptions part of the sidebar now displayed in Editingrestrictions, click the check-box for 'Everyone'. In other words, yourentire document is read-only except for the main part in the middle, whichcan be edited by everyone.
- Click the 'Yes, Start Enforcing Protection' button, and set a password ifyou want to.
This does exactly what I want it to. Thanks Mike.
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It is called content control. In Word 2007 the easiest way to do what you want is to click on the Review tab in the ribbon, then click the Protect Document button and select 'Restrict Formatting and Editing'. Make the changes you want in the side bar that appears.
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When you create a table in Word, you can have the table automatically resized to fit the contents. However, sometimes you may want to freeze the size of the cells in the rows and columns so they will not change. This is easy to accomplish.
Youtube videos music video. Open the Word file containing the table for which you want to freeze the size of the cells and find the table in the document. If you want to freeze the size of all the cells in the table, which is what we did in our example, move your mouse over the crosshair box in the upper-left corner of the table until it becomes a cursor with a crosshair icon.
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Click on the crosshair box to select the entire table, if desired. Right-click on the crosshair box and select “Table Properties” from the popup menu.
NOTE: If you don’t want to freeze all the cells in the table, select the rows, columns, or cells you want to freeze, right-click on the the selected cells, and select “Table Properties” from the popup menu.
On the “Table Properties” dialog box, click the “Row” tab.
Enter the size you want for the height of the row(s) in the “Specify height” edit box and then select “Exactly” from the “Row height is” drop-down list.
Click on the “Table” tab.
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Click the “Options” button.
On the “Table Options” dialog box, in the “Options” section, click the “Automatically resize to fit contents” check box so there is NO check mark in the box. Click “OK”.
Click “OK” on the “Table Properties” dialog box to close it.
If you don’t turn off the “Automatically resize to fit contents” option, Word will adjust the column width of your tables to display your data in the best way possible.
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