On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 14:02, > I have an icon on the toolbar to do just what you want (in OOo 3.2.0 on > Windows Vista) - it's just to the right of the open, save, etc. icons, looks > like a page with a pencil, and the tooltip if you hover the mouse over it > says "Edit File". Click the icon to toggle between edit and read-only mode. > This only affects the current session, so next time you open the file it > will be back to edit mode (unless you also set the read-only property on the > file). If a file has the read-only property set, clicking this button to > switch to edit mode asks if you want to edit a copy of the file since the > original cannot be edited, which is sometimes handy. > > I'm not sure if the icon was there by default, or whether I added it. If you > don't see it, try going to Tools > Customise > Toolbars, select the toolbar > you want to add it to (it's on "Standard" toolbar for me) then click > "Add...". Under the "Documents" category is the "Edit File" command. Add > that to the toolbar and position wherever is convenient. > > Hope that helps. > > Mark. >
Thanks, Mark, I do have that icon as default as well. I never noticed it, and when I went looking for the function I searched in the menus, but not the icons, on the assumption that any icons only duplicate menu functionality. Thank you! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
