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How to edit a protected MS Word document with working check boxes?

I am using MS Office 2010. In Word I am trying to add check boxes to the document via 'developer tools' which I have done successfully but to get them to work I have to protect the document which locks out being able to edit it. I have changed 'Editing Restrictions' to 'No Changes (Read Only)' while selecting the areas I want to leave editable but when I do the check boxes are no longer checkable. Please help.

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Chris Bottomley

If you can contain the check boxes to a specific section then you can protect the sections with checkboxes and leave the rest of the document fully editable. You can also add form field text boxes to enable text entry in amongst the checkboxes.

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kmslogic

You want to set the editing restrictions to "filling in forms" not no changes.

wtchandler

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@ krnslogic
I've set them 'Filling in Forms' as well but that locks down the entire document where no edits can be made.

@GrahamSkan
When I exempt sections from protection the check boxes no longer become usable. So basically what you're saying is it cant be done while protecting the entire document?

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wtchandler

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It may not make a difference but I should that I'm necessarily trying to edit text rather I am adding sections for text fields so that information can be entered.

What do you mean separate it by sections?

kmslogic

Use Insert->Break->Continuous (or next page if that is appropriate) to add new sections--there can be more than one section on the page. Each section is sequentially numbered and you can pick which ones to leave unprotected per Graham's suggestion.