Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 12:37, Paul Kater wrote:
>
>>On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:22, Anne Wilson said:
>>
>>>open the template under > Templates > Edit and simply change the name,
>>>saving it with a new name. I can't do that. For some reason it says
>>>that the text is read-only.
>>
>>Very strange! Can you open the template as a new document (file -> new
>>... )?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>>Perhaps you can then use the new document, based on the
>>template, and save that as a new template.
>>
>
> I tried that as well, but got the same message. I should have said that the
> business card uses a table for layout, so it could be something to do with
> the table settings, but it's far from obvious where the problem lies. I
> did all the work on it last night, and could edit the fields then without
> any problems at all. What worries me is that if I have to start again from
> scratch to make the second one it's extremely doubtful that I could make it
> exactly like the first.
>
> Anne
Hi Anne
Some templates are saved under ~OOo/share/ and you may not (as user)
have write permissions to that directory.
Can you "Save As" under a new name and edit the new copy?
Russell
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