Hi :) HooooRaaaa! Congrats for finding that!! It's difficult to deal with such things diplomatically sometimes! Things that make complete and obvious sense to a whole group of people (and therefore don't need explaining (in the same way as it's rare to explain to someone that we breathe air or that the sky is blue unless it's sunset or when there's a lot of cloud-cover) are completely unheard of by someone else who might have their own 'obvious' way of doing things. It can be really frustrating trying to figure out what 'obvious' thing the person has missed or what thing they have done and not bothered to explain.
So, good work! Nicely handled! Congrats and regards from Tom :) On 16 August 2014 17:39, Tom Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/11/2014 08:33 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > > At 19:34 11/08/2014 -0700, Tom Williams wrote: > >> My dad is a long time OpenOffice user and today he called me about a > >> problem he's having with one of his spreadsheets. Apparently, he > >> hides rows to reduce the amount of information he sees when he's > >> looking at the spreadsheet. Today, he needed to change a cell in one > >> of the hidden rows. When he tried to make a change, he showed the row > >> but wasn't able to change a cell because something prevented him from > >> making changes. When he showed the hidden row, he saw an icon for an > >> anchor and green squares along the perimeter of the selection of the > >> now shown rows. > >> > >> He sent the spreadsheet to me and when I open it in LibreOffice Calc, > >> 4.2.4.2 on Linux, I see the same behavior he describes. From what I > >> can tell, it looks like Calc converts the hidden row into an image or > >> graphic of some kind such that when he tries to change it, he can't > >> because those rows are now part of an image/graphic or "object" > >> that's embedded in the file. > > > > I doubt very much that Calc has converted values to a picture of those > > values. But yes: you very probably do have a graphic or other object > > in or covering the relevant cells. If you need to modify a cell which > > appears inaccessible because of an overlaid graphic, there are a > > number of ways to do this. > > > > o You can type the cell reference into the Name Box and then edit the > > contents in the Input Line. > > > > o You can (temporarily?) suppress display of the graphic at Tools | > > Options... | LibreOffice Calc | View | Objects | Objects/Graphics. > > > > o Most easily, you can send the graphic to the background using > > right-click | Arrange > | To Background. If you do this, you may want > > to bring it back to the front after you have completed the edit, but > > you will not be able to select it by simply clicking on it precisely > > because it is now in the background. One convenient way to select the > > graphic is to open the Navigator (go to View | Navigator or press F5) > > and double-click the name of the graphic. You can then use right-click > > | Arrange > | To Foreground to reset the position. > > > > Of course, if you cannot see the graphic and are not missing anything, > > it may be that you don't want it and can merely delete it. > > > > Well, I have an update on this issue. You were 100% correct about an > image covering the cells. Apparently, my dad used a copy/paste function > to update the spreadsheet and pasted data as a bitmap. So, I was able > to guide him through simply deleting the image and his data is editable > as expected. > > THANK YOU! :) > > Peace... > > Tom > > -- > /When we dance, you have a way with me, > Stay with me... Sway with me.../ > > -- > 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
