Protected document in word content disappears when enable editing

I have taken a look at the XML inside the document and found that there are no extra elements around the text that could possibly be causing the problem so that behavior is just a bug of Microsoft Word.įurther to your issue I found no way of removing the yellow brackets around editable ranges when document protection is enabled. I can reproduce the same issue with your test document. If you protect it again it'll print okay, and if you remove all protection and exceptions it'll print okay. Printing that should show the gray lines.

EDIT - :Īs requested in a comment below, here's a slimmed-down file that demonstrates the problem. I tried to turn off bookmarks because that's what seemed to come up when I searched around, but that didn't do anything.

I'd like someone to be able to read the doc without seeing brackets, and I'd like other people in my department to be able to print without having to re-restrict it first. I guess the ultimate question is, how can I get rid of the brackets altogether? I can see why they exist but in my use case they create more problems than they solve. When the document is printed while NOT protected, part of the bracket shows up on the paper! When the document is printed while protected, it works fine. That I can handle, though I'd like to learn how to hide them on-screen if that's possible. Once these brackets appear, they'll always show on the screen. The editable text turns yellow and gains these brackets around them: I'm trying to work out a problem in Word that I thought was simply a glitch from 2003 until we upgraded to 2010 and the problem persisted.įor our corporate letterhead, we set up the template with placeholder text, highlight the text, and then make the document read-only with the exception of the selected text.

Protected document in word content disappears when enable editing