I am trying to protect a user form so that once a document originating form
the form template has been saved it will be impossible to manipulate in any
way apart from being opened for reading, printed, saved or deleted? Can
anyone help?

Hi Steve,

I'm not really sure what you're asking. If you want the document to be protected, then the answer is no. There is just no foolproof method to do this.
If on the other hand you want to protect the template (and the userform), you can add a password in the VBE so others can't read or modify your code. Well, of course, there's always a way, but it isn't easy.

Hope this helps,
regards,
Astrid

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