Hi All,

Thanks to the various threads on here I am successfully using word in a mail merge context.

Now whilst I can initiate word, open and close the doc, fill out the bookmarks and print, I'd like to know if it's possible to disable the save option within word.

That way I can allow the user to edit the document on the fly if need be, before actually printing but I don't want them to save any changes over the top of the original document.

Does anyone know how to achieve this (I'm sure there are plenty who do) or is there a better way to manage the overwriting issue.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi Mark,

I cant help on disabling the save, but if you want to be absolutely sure then the best way is probably to copy the document to a temporary location before opening. That way the user can do what they like with it. And you can delete any you have created as part of a tidy up when they have done with it, or perhaps cleardown the temporary area on logon etc.

Alternately set the directory holding the docs to read-only for the user-group that this applies to.

Cheers,

Simon

Hi Mark,

Does setting the ProtectionType property help?

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Thanks Simon and Sprezz for both suggestions.

I'll have a play….

I don't know about Word but WordPerfect let's you:

1) Open a document as a copy so no changes go to the original.

or

2) Mail Merge to a new document. Users can then edit as they wish and save it without overwriting the original.

If you can toggle the property manually in Word one sneaky way is to record a macro, fiddle around with what you want to. Then save and edit the macro and see what properties or functions are being set or called.

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