Protect the Form from Changes

After you’ve tested the fields in your form and made sure that Help works, there’s one more thing you need to do before you distribute the form to users. You should protect the form. Protection allows users to fill in the form, but prevents them from changing the form’s layout and standard elements.

Protect the whole form   Click the Protect Form button on the Forms toolbar.

Protect sections in a form   If you divided the form into sections and don’t want to protect them all, click Protect Document (Tools menu), click the Sections button, and then click the sections you want to protect. (You divide a document into sections by clicking Break (Insert menu), and then clicking the type of section break you want.)

Protect the form with a password   You can add a password so that only users who know it can remove the protection and change the form. Click Protect Document (Tools menu).

Important   Make sure you use a password you will remember because, if you forget it, you will not be able to make changes.

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Want to know more?   Look up Getting Results - Online Form in Help.