I maintain that you WANT this behavior because you will not accidentally
over-write others changes. Not sure if you can disable the warning. The
warning is there because most people are upset if they edit a document
for a while and then find out that they cannot save it.
There is one other things. In OOo 3.0, you can share the document. You
enter "collaborative" mode. At this point, multiple people can read the
document and make changes at the same time.
Fey, Jordan (PBTI) wrote:
Hi,
I'm in the process of migrating the company I work forfrom Microsoft Office
to OpenOffice, and we are getting bombarded with user issues and complaints.
Most of which can be curcumvented however I'm stuck with this one and am
wondering if anyone can help.
In some departments there are spread sheets used by multiple users
throughout the day. If opening them in MS Excel, a warning is generated
stating "<filename> is locked for editing by <username> Click notify to open
a read-only copy of the document and recieve notification when the document
is no longer in use". You can then either open in Read only mode, or in
notify mode. When a similar situation occurs in Open Office, the dicument is
opened without warning & the only way to tell is that "read only" is
displayed in the title bar. As the majority of the users within the company
are technophobes, this isn't sufficient for them & we've already lost
several hours work.
I've browsed through all the options t.n.a. Can some one advise if i've
missed something and there is a way to display warnings about the document
state or if this is something Open Office simply cannot do?
Many Thanks
Jordan Fey
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