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Subject:RE: Date field in Word From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 17 May 2005 07:47:31 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Dan. I'd copied the information from the help topic into the
email I'm sending out, including the unfreeze...I just wanted a
confirmation on that particular field as opposed to sending it out to
30 people, then having to post a retraction...credibility and all
that.
> CTRL+F11 will freeze the date -- or any other field -- just like it
> says in the Help file. But since you can't guarantee that your
> programmers will follow instructions, be aware that they can always
> unfreeze the date (CTRL+SHIFT+F11). To *truly* protect a field from
> updating, you can enclose it in a separate, password-protected
> section.
John Posada
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