>>Can anyone tell me the syntax I need to make a merged document come up as read only? I don't want to make the original document read only, just the newly created merged one.
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>I'm not sure you can do that unless you save it, close it and reopen it as read-only. However, Word's definition of "read-only" isn't terribly meaningful anyway. It means that you can't resave to the same file. It doesn't prevent editing and it doesn't prevent Save As.
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>Tamar


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Tamar,

What I did was code my program so that certain users would get access to pull up the document an change/save, etc. , but for the users I did not want to have the ability to change anything in the forms, I have it pull up the document, do the merge, print, then close. I am having a little problem with the close part though; I can get it to close the documents open, but seem to have a problem getting the winword.exe out of memory for the object. I looked for something in your book, but all I could find was something like release all like o* , or something like that where oWord would be the object. That did not help. Any suggestions?