This is very strange. I have not seen this issue before. After experimenting with the file for a bit, I found that 1. I saved the file to my disk 2. added a space at the beginning of the line 3 saved the file again 4. closed the file 5 opened the file in LibreOffice. I found that the read-only protection had been removed. I was then able to edit that read-only area of the line - as well as remove the space at the beginning of the line.
I would love to know how the file had been generated to cause this problem. regards Mike On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > @ Alan. Normally a greyed area like that indicates it is a Table of > Contents or index or something. Uusually the right-click menu gives more > options such as "update ToC". I'm not sure what has gone wrong with this > one. Hopefully others ... > > > @ Anne > Try > Tools - Options - Internet - "Browser Plugin" > and UNtick the box to prevent ODF documents from opening up in your > web-browser. Quite a few people get the plugin for Firefox or whatever, > thinking it would be great and then regret it > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > >________________________________ > > From: anne-ology <[email protected]> > >To: Alan Stern <[email protected]> > >Cc: [email protected] > >Sent: Thursday, 16 May 2013, 0:18 > >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unprotect readonly parts of a > document? > > > > > > When I click on this URL, a HTML document appears based from LO - > > with only 1 line. > > > > I can delete, add, ... to this line. > > > > Hopefully someone else will understand your question and will come > >to your aid - > > as for me, your question is beyond me. > > > > BTW - attachments are not allowed on this list ;-) > > > > > > > >On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Alan Stern <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >On Wed, 15 May 2013, Alan Stern wrote: > >> > >> > I'm having trouble with LibreOffice 3.6. A file I was given contains > >> > regions that are readonly, and I can't figure out how to unprotect > them > >> > in order to edit them. > >> > > >> > The usual advice in the archives is to use the Format -> Sections menu > >> > option. That doesn't work here; the Sections line in the Format menu > >> > is grayed out. Other advice is to save the file in .odt format and > >> > then open the result. That doesn't work either. > >> > > >> > Attached to this email is a very short document (in .odt format) > >> > exhibiting the problem. It's just one line of text saying: > >> > > >> > Normal (9) Normal again. > >> > > >> > The "(9)" region shows up in gray and can't be edited. Can anybody > >> > help? > >> > >> Evidently this mailing list doesn't like attachments. I have stored > >> the demo document at: > >> > >> http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/~stern/readonly-demo.odt > >> > >> Alan Stern > >> > >> > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > >Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
