Changing Form Field highlight and/or background color when document is protected

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Changing Form Field highlight and/or background color when document is protected

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Can it be done?

I am able to change the form field color programmatically, provided the document is not protected, but when not protected the document is much less useful as a form, because it is too easy for the user to accidentally delete the form field when entering data.

So, for instance, when the document is not protected, this works:

ActiveDocument.FormFields(1).Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen

But when the document is protected, I get a run-time error.

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When using FormFields, the document must be protected for filling in forms and while you can turn on the shading of the formfields, the only colour is grey. The advantage of using that shading however is that it does not print,

If you want to apply some other colour, you will have to run the macro before protecting the document and then protect it after running the macro. Shading applied in that manner will be printed, unless you again unprotect the document and run a macro to remove it.