Hi :) @ Alan. Normally a greyed area like that indicates it is a Table of Contents or index or something. Uusually the right-click menu gives more options such as "update ToC". I'm not sure what has gone wrong with this one. Hopefully others ...
@ Anne Try Tools - Options - Internet - "Browser Plugin" and UNtick the box to prevent ODF documents from opening up in your web-browser. Quite a few people get the plugin for Firefox or whatever, thinking it would be great and then regret it Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> >To: Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 16 May 2013, 0:18 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unprotect readonly parts of a document? > > > When I click on this URL, a HTML document appears based from LO - > with only 1 line. > > I can delete, add, ... to this line. > > Hopefully someone else will understand your question and will come >to your aid - > as for me, your question is beyond me. > > BTW - attachments are not allowed on this list ;-) > > > >On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu>wrote: > >On Wed, 15 May 2013, Alan Stern wrote: >> >> > I'm having trouble with LibreOffice 3.6. A file I was given contains >> > regions that are readonly, and I can't figure out how to unprotect them >> > in order to edit them. >> > >> > The usual advice in the archives is to use the Format -> Sections menu >> > option. That doesn't work here; the Sections line in the Format menu >> > is grayed out. Other advice is to save the file in .odt format and >> > then open the result. That doesn't work either. >> > >> > Attached to this email is a very short document (in .odt format) >> > exhibiting the problem. It's just one line of text saying: >> > >> > Normal (9) Normal again. >> > >> > The "(9)" region shows up in gray and can't be edited. Can anybody >> > help? >> >> Evidently this mailing list doesn't like attachments. I have stored >> the demo document at: >> >> http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/~stern/readonly-demo.odt >> >> Alan Stern >> >> > >-- >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
