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f1b4be8a04 Restrict Editing: forms protection keeps a form's content controls (#3112)
* Restrict Editing: forms protection keeps a form's content controls

With Filling in forms enforced (w:edit="forms"), Word greys out the
Developer tab's control buttons and Properties, and a field's shortcut
menu offers no Remove Content Control: only the fields' content can be
filled in. WordCraft refused these only outside the fillable fields, so
with the caret in one it removed the control (its content left as
plain, no longer fillable text), inserted new controls inside it, and
renamed it; only lock changes were refused.

Under forms protection, inserting any content control, Properties
(every setting) and Remove Content Control are now refused before they
run. Typing, Toggle Check Box, Choose List Item and Set Date still fill
the fields. Other protection modes are unchanged.

Observed in Word for Mac 16.113 on a protected real-world form
(72 content controls: rich text, check boxes, date pickers); the same
form filled in WordCraft opens in Word still protected, with its values,
ticks and dates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Restrict Editing: parity row states what forms protection refuses

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Restrict Editing: correct the comment on content-control property edits in forms mode

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
2026-10-19 12:49:05 -04:00
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