You can create a section, and set the properties of the
section, such as adding password protection and preventing a section
from being printed.
To add a section, click and select the Section tab. - New section
- Type a name for the new section. By default, IBM® Lotus®
Symphony™ automatically assigns
the name SectionX to new sections, where X is
a consecutive number.
- Link
- Inserts the contents of another section in the current document
as a link.
- DDE
- Creates a DDE link. Select this check box, and then enter the
DDE command that you want to use. The DDE option is only available
if the Link check box is selected.
- The general syntax for a DDE command is: "<Server> <Topic>
<Item>", where server is the DDE name for the application that
contains the data. Topic refers to the location of the Item (usually
the file name), and Item represents the actual object.
- File name / DDE command
- Enter the path and the filename for the file that you want to
insert, or click the browse button (...) to locate the file. If the
DDE check box is selected, enter the DDE command that you want to
use.
- Section
- Select the section that you want to insert as a link.
- Protect
- Prevents the selected section from being edited. To remove the
protection, click .
- With password
- Protects the selected section with a password. The password must
have a minimum of five characters. Click ... to
change the current password.
- Hide
- Hides and prevents the selected section from being printed. The
components of a hidden section display as not available in the Navigator.
When you hover your mouse pointer over a hidden component in the Navigator,
the Help tip "hidden" is displayed. You cannot hide a section if it
is the only content on a page, or in a header, footer, footnote, frame,
or table cell.
- With condition
- Enter the condition that must be met to hide the section.
- Editable in read-only document
- Select to allow editing of the section's contents
even if the document is opened in read-only mode.