password protection on Word documents

[Diana]

We generate documents(invoices) that are Protected, Forms with a specific password. for formatting purposes a specific print form is called.

other documents are Protected forms, setup with formfields no password. These documents are setup with a straight toggle on/off for Protect/Unprotect document These docs require regular printing.

The different tests for protected documents "wdProtectionType" are:
wsAllowOnlyComments
wdAllowOnlyFormFields
wdAllowOnlyRevisions
wdNoProtection.

The problems is both these documents return "wdAllowOnlyFormFields", because they are these types of docs. One has a specific password the other protected doc doesnt have a password.

If I do some fine tuning code - and test by adding the specific password eg
If specific password = "" then...
the result is both documents are unlocked

Anyone else encounter this issue? Is this a limitation of Word and working with protected documents?

any ideas on how i can display the different forms for the different types of protected documents?


diana

[HansV]

You could use a custom document property or a document variable to store the type of document. For example you could create a custom document property named DocType with value either Pw or NoPw. You can then use

If ActiveDocument.CustomDocumentProperties("DocType") = "Pw" Then
  ...
Else
  ...
End If

[Diana]

hi Hans

The protected documents with passwords already have a unique identifier in the form of customDocumentProperty.

Ive already tested trying to extract customDocumentProperty. The result and problem is when the code runs to check for customDocProperty, because the document is "locked", it doesnt return any customDocumentProperties although they exist.

diana

[HansV]

You should still be able to retrieve the value of a custom document property in a document protected for forms. I tested it just now and it works fine.

[Diana]

OK ill continue working on it see how I go.

Ill let you know

many thanks Hans

diana

[Diana]

hey Hans

yes acessing CustomDocumentProperties worked on a password protected document

Many thanks again

dd