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Locking text boxes in a Word document lets you prevent others from tampering with or making inadvertent changes to these text-entry controls. By doing so, you promote error-free performance of any Visual Basic for Applications programs that rely on the text boxes. Locking text boxes also prevents changes that could make a document visually unfit for presentation.
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How to Anchor an Image in Word. This wikiHow teaches you how to anchor an image to a specific position in a Microsoft Word document. Open your Word. Open your Word document. Double-click the file to open it in Word. Another way to open the document is to open Word (in the Windows menu on a PC or the Applications folder on a Mac), click File, click Open, then double-click the file.
A simple way of locking text boxes is to use the Restrict Editing command, which allows you to single out text boxes for restricted editing.