Thanks for letting me know this tutorial helped you! I don’t always get it right because sometimes I misunderstand the question or don’t know what version the person is using… But I always hope that my readers will let me know if something doesn’t work as described. I looked at about 5 sites previous to this one and they were all wrong! This one actually works, nice one! Please add to the discussion using the comment box at the end of the page.) (These comments are from a previous commenting system. To protect a form in Word 2007, on the Developer tab, click Protect Document in Word 2010, click Restrict Editing. If you use Legacy form fields, you have to protect your form for filling in form fields, otherwise the form will not work. To configure a Legacy form field, right-click it and select Properties. The gray shading in the form field is now gone
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#Removing highlight colors in word code#
You would then have to write some code to highlight the ranges by yourself that are editable in the document, code like: Of course if you do this, you will lose the automatic yellow highlighting that Word provides. You can programmatically turn shading of editable regions off by using the property and setting it to False. There isn't a way to change the highlight colour used by Word to shade editable regions. Some more info from Change the colour that indicates sections that are editable : = wdNoHighlightĪctiveDocument.Protect wdAllowOnlyFormFields, NoReset:=True, Password:="" If ActiveDocument.ProtectionType = wdAllowOnlyFormFields Thenįor Each oFF In ActiveDocument.FormFields If you are using a highlight on the formfields - which you must have put before you protected - then you have to unprotect the document to remove the highlight. If this does not work, you may need a vba macroĪs I have never written a VBA macro, here are some quotes from people who have:įrom How do I get rid of form field shading in Word?