Actually, Lisa...that's a pretty good idea! Rather than just adding the text in the textbox in the header layer...you could do it up as a graphic image, as long as the image was sized properly so that the text was clear and resizing it isn't needed (much) so that you don't end up with "rubber text" (warp text in a graphic due to irregular X/Y resizing. Then if they DO find their way into the image area, they still can't do much about it. Cool, Lisa...I've got to remember that one! ;-) Dian D. Chapman Technical Consultant, Microsoft MVP & Instructor Free Tutorials: www.mousetrax.com/techtrax Free Word Tips & Tricks eBook: www.mousetrax.com/books.html Learn VBA the easy way, thru video! www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Green Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:57 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Word Template Question Hi Scot, PMFJI for a relative newbie, but if I want people not to be able to edit text I don't use text. I don't know if this is anywhere near what you mean but I enter the text in another program like paint or in fact I use an old freebie copy of paint shop pro and save it as a picture. Then I insert the picture into the document usually in a table cell so that I have easy control over placement, size and so on with any other real text that I might want to put into other cells. HTH Regards Lisa ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************