Jean I can confirm that your findings are repeatable. It seems that the document has only to be marked shared, it is not necessary that a second user has it open, for this behaviour to show up.
The Share Document dialog box does give a small hint when it states: "Note: Changes to ... will not be saved and some functionalities like ... are not available in shared mode. Turn off shared mode to get exclusive access needed for those changes and functionalities." So it would appear that insertion of comments is one of these not available functionalities. Why exactly you can edit/delete but not insert is not clear to me. It is possible that the concept of recording changes in Calc depends on the comment function and so somehow is linked with the inability to insert new comments in shared mode. I note in addition that one cannot format the page, record changes (probably this one is obvious?), insert a picture from file, define ranges (including a print range) and work with names (among other things) in a shared spreadsheet. We do have comments (!) in the Guide to this effect: "Some menu commands are not available (grayed out) when change tracking or document sharing is activated." and When you open a spreadsheet document that is in shared mode, you see a message that the document is in shared mode and that some features are not available in this mode. Do you think it necessary to further amplify the text on p4 in the section "Sharing documents (collaboration)"? regards Martin On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:31:57 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin, > I'm going through your edits of Chapter 11 of the Calc Guide and doing > some testing. It appears that I cannot insert a comment when the s/s is > in shared mode. "Comment" is grayed out on the "Insert" menu and does > not appear at all on the context menu. However, I can edit or delete a > comment that was added when the s/s was not shared. > > I found that if I go to Tools > Share Document and untick the checkbox, > then I can add comments and later tick the checkbox to make the s/s > shared again. > > Do you know anything about this? Have I got it correct? Is that working > as designed? Seems a bit cumbersome to me, but maybe I'm just missing > the logic behind it. > > Thanks for any enlightenment you can give me. > > --Jean > -- Martin J Fox 马丁·福克斯 [email protected] [email protected] Skype: butibum _______________________________________ QQ 775937674 / MSN [email protected] VK7MM/HB9TQX Registered as #324626 with the Linux counter, www.counter.li.org "Wizard's Guild parking ONLY! Violators will be toad." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
