We have a series of documents in which management wants the user to be able to click a check box to select or deselect it. To do this, I've created sections in the document and protected only those sections that have the check boxes or other text that shouldn't change. But management also wants "Page x of n" for the page numbering in the footer (x is the current page number, n is the total page count), and the page count won't automatically update as text flows to the next page. The work-around is to "Stop Protection" on the document, at which point the page count field automatically updates. I can "Start enforcing protection" again, and the change sticks.
Because this is a form many employees will use for everyday tasks, I would like to know if there's a way to "unprotect" the footer in a protected document so the user doesn't have to take the extra steps of unprotecting and protecting the document just to update a page number. We don't want to use a macro or macro button (I know how to write the macro to do this, so please, no suggested macros), because that's NOT user friendly: the page count field should change automatically regardless of protection because that's what typical users expect it to do.
Thank you.
Scott
