Hi
Can someone please help my husband with this query please?
The Company that he works for is setting up a Network in conjunction with a 
specialiazed software company.
The problem is that although there are set up numerous documents and letters 
there is apparently no way to satisfactorily protect these documents from 
accidental changes or erasure.
What is currently running is a Unidata box with the data accessed via a 
proprietary management program. 
There is a PC operating as "Print Server" ( Win.3.11 with MS Word 6), all the 
documents are in Word 6, using files xxx.hdr & xxx.dat details to provide the 
information for mail merge through Word6.
The Company setting this up has suggested that the only option to protect the 
documents is by blocking access to the directory holding the documents on the 
network to all unauthorized employees.  
Unfortunately with the "Print Server" being on a separate PC any one can 
access all the directories by simply going to that PC and playing around:))
We are neither experienced Word Users, however, reading, all the details in 
the "On-Line" Word help hasn't provided a satisfactory answer. Or have we 
missed something:))
"Other half" has read in a magazine that it may be possible to have all docs 
protected.  When each one is required a macro can un-protect the doc and then 
re-protect it after the mail merge has run.  
This apparently uses a macro comm and that seems to be able to be included in 
the "mail merge" process.
Any help, suggestions or procedures as to how this would work, that any one 
may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
Andrew & Rachel Alliston
alliston@msn.com
... Read the manual? Wow, what a radical concept.
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