It is not possible to have both, your program and user, manage the document, because user will behave unpredictably (at least it is what I have learned from my experience with MSWOrd).
More flexibility you would get from Excel where you are able to set protection for particular cells, sheets or ranges.

>Thanks for responding but I am supposed to let the user do the formatting, only the fill-in-the-blanks are for me <g>.
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>>I doubt you can use name for tables in MSWORD, but you could use the table absolute position in the document (.ActiveDocument.Selection.start)
>>to identify the table.
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>>>Hi
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>>>How can I name the table in the word template. If I use the table numbers in Automation the user may add a new table before the expected table and everything would fall flat on the face.
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>>>Is this possible?