Form Protection

The ProOffice AddIn for Microsoft Word supports documents which are working with forms and are having a form protection. In order to add values to such a document, the user must know the relevant password. The password set in the customizing will then be canceled temporarily and reset with the same password. All values in the form fields will remain.

In case the form is protected without a password, „no password" must be set as password in the customizing. This way the AddIn will cancel the form protection temporarily and reset it without password.
For documents without form protection, no special procedure is required (independent of customizing settings.)

Microsoft Word always requires a password in lower-case letters. ProOffice AddIn for Microsoft Word always converts the password into lower-case letters.

Customizing ProOffice

Document Protection

How to prepare a MS Word 2010 file

Step	Description
1	Open the Word file Open the Word file and position the cursor at the very beginning of the file.
2	Breaks Insert section break „Continuous".
3	Document Protection Protect Document: Restrict formatting and editing in ribbon Developer Tools.
4	Select Sections Section 1 must be selected as protected section (use "Select sections...") Header and footer are automatically assigned to the first section.
5	Password Add password for document protection. Password must match the password as deposit in ProNovia SDF (lower case letters).
6	Header and footer are now protected against editing