Hi :) Congrats :)) Nicely done :) Also thanks for letting us know you fixed it. There seemed to be some sort of password issue somewhere along the way but hopefully you managed to dodge that using this method. Good luck and regards from Tom :)
----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Hartigan <michael.harti...@gmail.com> To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> Cc: Sent: Monday, 30 September 2013, 16:13 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] downloaded .doc file will only open as read-only saving a copy, under file, worked to create a writable version, exact fascimile (unlike cutting and pasting). Thank you all for your help On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi :) > Now the confusion is that MS Outlook does allow this behaviour so people > assume that's the way it should be done. Even though they lose files they > still grumble about the idea of having to download to a known location. > Something that did catch their attention was the threading. MS Outlook > just can't manage it. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2013, 21:14 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] downloaded .doc file will only open as > read-only > > > On 2013-09-29 12:46 AM, Dave Liesse <dslie...@liessefamily.net> wrote: > > This is what I was going to suggest, as well. Any document I get via > > email is read-only, regardless of its source software (I use Thunderbird > > as my client). > > It wasn't always - less recent version of Thunderbird would open > attachemnts in read/write mode, and this was a major source of confusion > for our users - they would open a document, make changes, just click > 'save', then couldn't find their changes... I'd have to help them dig > out the modified document from their Temp folder. > > I was very happy when Thunderbird changed this so that email attachments > were opened in read only mode. > -- 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
