On 17/02/18 09:17, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I'm not sure how to open as read-only myself but i'd guess a right-click > either per file or on a group of selected files prolly has something.
Select "Open File" within Libre Office: in the dialogue box, in the lower left hand corner is a clue and yes, it does function with multiple selected files. > I think chmod might help change which user "owns" the files - or put them > on a volume/drive/folder that is mounted read-only - but that all seems a > bit extreme. It's more than a bit extreme, but changing the permissions on the reference files would work, with possible side-effects. i.e. Libre Office would probably try to auto-save and might regularly bleat about its inability to do so. > You could change the time-delay or completely eliminate the auto-save > feature. Such options used to be in; > Tools - Options - ... > or something like that and prolly still are. Not a good idea if one wanted to auto-save the "live" document, however depress F1 and search for "auto" in Help. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
