Mark Bourne wrote > 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.
our right. I was using the Windows Properties panel, I'd forgotten about the panel in LO itself. Problem solved, thanks - edo1 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/read-only-problem-tp4097968p4098250.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
