Vincent Rubiolo wrote:
Dear LibreOffice users,I am running LO 4.2.6.2 on Fedora 20 (4.2.6.2-1.fc20) and I am updating Writer a document originally coming from OpenOffice. It is a one page list of errands, with contents in 2 tables. I can edit part of the document correctly (one table) but the other is uneditable because it is actually read-only. I can see that from the disalog that pops-up when attempting to edit ("Readonly content cannot be changed."). The problem is that I: 1. AFAIK never asked for this part of the document to be read-only. 2. am unable to change that back to editable. Indeed, most solutions I have found ask to select the text/table and Choose Edit->Sections to enable back editing. In my case (attached captures), I can see the 'Sections' menu being grayed out in both cases. Also note how many more items are greyed out when in the read-only part of the document. Could sb tell me what I need to do here? I have been searching for hours on a way to do that without success... Thanks for your help on this matter! Vincent
To protect cells in a table, you can select them and either use the menu Table > Protect Cells, or right-click > Cell > Protect. You may have accidentally clicked one of those option at some point and not noticed since there's no immediately obvious effect; it's easily done.
Having done that, Table > Protect Cells is disabled so can't select that again to remove protection. However, you can right-click > Cell > Unprotect. A bit inconsistent, but hopefully that helps!
I've submitted bug 83011 to report the inconsistency in options to remove cell protection:
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