Hello

I have a From in Access that merges the record I am working with to a Word Template which fills in Three fields. I then send this to the client, whom then fills this in. And sends it back

I do want to protect the document so that the client will not accidently remove my bookmarks or my document layout. I can however do this prior to merging but after the merge, the protecting option is not available.

Is it possible to protect a merged document

You should be able to, but you may have to save, or save and close, the word document first and then reopen and protect it.

Thanks for the advise. I was wondering if someone has maybe encoutered the following before.

As soon as my document Merges the relevant fields, I reopen the document, I loose about half of the bookmarks set up in the document,
As indicated the document does get locked after export, so the clients can't accidently remove any fields, but this looses it prior to even being emailed.

I would really appreciate any adivse
Kind Regards