Protecting an Entire Form with Editing Restrictions
When you have finished preparing your form, you need to protect it—preventing users from making unauthorized changes to the underlying form, while allowing them to fill out the form fields you have provided for them.
NOTE
A form doesn't behave like a form until you protect it.
When you protect a form, some form fields that provide specific information can't be changed either. For example, in a protected form field, a user can't override the calculation you've built into a text form field.
To protect a form, first open it. Then choose Tools, Protect Document. The task pane shown in Figure 28.13 appears.
Figure 28.13. Protecting a form.
Check the Allow Only This Type of Editing in the Document ...
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