On Thursday 03 August 2006 08:41, Harold Fuchs wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it seems to me there is one of two issues here.. either the MS ignores write protected sections, or OO opened the document and made the sections write protected. Possibly it would be a good test to look at the structure under MS and see if it is protected or not. A third possibility is that MS does not support write protected sections. I don't know the third as I have not used any MS products in about 4 years.. I suggest you research the problem before filing any bug reports. You could possibility save some developers time, that could be more efficiently used on other higher priority fixes. FWIW.. Fred -- Fred Moore / WD8KNI
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