Re: [libreoffice-users] read-only problem
On 02/19/2014 06:04 PM, edo1 wrote: I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only What exactly do you mean with save as read-only? Stephan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] read-only problem
edo1 wrote: I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only to protect against accidents while I did something else. How did you do this? e.g.: - saved the file, then from Windows Explorer set the read only attribute? - set File Properties Security Open file as read-only in LibreOffice before saving the file? - or something else? Later wanting to check a style, I unchecked read-only and reopened the file. As far as I'm aware, this should have worked - assuming you removed the same option as you originally set. But again, what exactly did you do? Yet it still opens as read-only and styles and formatting is grayed out. Does anyone know how this can happen and how I can prevent it? Usually, editing is disabled if the file is read-only when it's opened; if the read-only attribute is changed while the file is open, it does not affect the editing options available. But you say you reopened the file after unchecking the read-only option, so I wouldn't expect that to be a problem. About the 5th icon in on the toolbar is one which looks like a pencil and paper, and hovering over it shows a tooltip Edit File. You could try clicking that, and then see if you can edit the file. This just allows or prohibits editing the document on-screen; it doesn't change the read-only attribute on the file, so you still might not be able to save the file with the same name if that attribute is still set for some reason. The best I could do was copy the contents into a new file from which I could retrieve the styles. That work-around will be a great pain with the rest of the project. I'm running LO 4.2.0.4 in Win7 x64. Thanks for any help! - edo1 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] read-only problem
I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only to protect against accidents while I did something else. Later wanting to check a style, I unchecked read-only and reopened the file. Yet it still opens as read-only and styles and formatting is grayed out. Does anyone know how this can happen and how I can prevent it? The best I could do was copy the contents into a new file from which I could retrieve the styles. That work-around will be a great pain with the rest of the project. I'm running LO 4.2.0.4 in Win7 x64. Thanks for any help! - edo1 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/read-only-problem-tp4097968.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] read-only problem
Last time I had a read-only document, I used Save As and made sure it was not saved as read-only. You have to use a different file name to get it to work, or at least it did the last time I needed to do that. I think that was during the 4.0.4 or .5 version of LO. On 02/19/2014 12:04 PM, edo1 wrote: I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only to protect against accidents while I did something else. Later wanting to check a style, I unchecked read-only and reopened the file. Yet it still opens as read-only and styles and formatting is grayed out. Does anyone know how this can happen and how I can prevent it? The best I could do was copy the contents into a new file from which I could retrieve the styles. That work-around will be a great pain with the rest of the project. I'm running LO 4.2.0.4 in Win7 x64. Thanks for any help! - edo1 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/read-only-problem-tp4097968.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] read-only problem
Hi :) Use Save As to give it a new name. I tend to add -v1 to the end or gradually increase that number. So in a folder i get names such as Khidmat-v1.odt Khidmat-v2.odt Khidmat-v3.odt Then if something has gone wrong with the latest version it's easy to go back to a fairly recent version. I tend to find that files become read-only if opened over a network by a different desktop machine or after rebooting the machine i am using. Regards from Tom :) On 19 February 2014 17:04, edo1 edagr...@verizon.net wrote: I saved a small (14 page) styled part of a large project as read-only to protect against accidents while I did something else. Later wanting to check a style, I unchecked read-only and reopened the file. Yet it still opens as read-only and styles and formatting is grayed out. Does anyone know how this can happen and how I can prevent it? The best I could do was copy the contents into a new file from which I could retrieve the styles. That work-around will be a great pain with the rest of the project. I'm running LO 4.2.0.4 in Win7 x64. Thanks for any help! - edo1 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/read-only-problem-tp4097968.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
