It was *not* the OS, it was OO.
I found that, in Writer, under Format/Sections the two sections of the
document were Write Protected.
Unchecking the box for each section fixed the problem.
The question remains, though, as to what causes this to happen. MS Word, on
my friend's machine, clearly did not think the sections are protected.
Anyone ?
Harold Fuchs
London, England
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirill S. Palagin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: RE: [users] Read Only - Or Not ???
It was made read-only by means of operating system, like being on CD or
having read-only attribute set.
Open that document, do File\Save As, choose location and provide
appropriate name. Then you should be able to edit the file and then
forward it to organisation.
-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:54 PM
To: OpenOfficeUsers
Subject: [users] Read Only - Or Not ???
An organisation recently sent me an MS Word document, as an
e-mail attachment, and asked that I fill it in and e-mail it back.
I don't use MS Word. I use OpenOffice, on Win XP/SP2.
I opened the document and started filling it in. As soon as I
started typing I got an error message to the effect that the
document is Read Only and I can't modify it.
I forwarded the e-mail to a friend who has MS Word. On his
system I could fill in the form; it was *not* read only.
What is happening here, please?
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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