Just a thought, but wouldn't "View | Navigator" help here? On a simple test document in Writer, after inserting a table within a table, I see two tables listed in Navigator. They appear under each other, so there is no way to tell that they are nested, but double-clicking on them takes one to the first cell in each, so I can tell from that where the tables are. Although I do note that when I have an inner table in the first cell of an outer table, double-clicking on either table in Navigator takes me to the first cell in the inner table. But by right-clicking on the table in Navigator, I can select "Table | Edit" to bring up the "Table Format" dialog, though again I note that doing so for either the outer table or the inner table in the first cell edits the format of the inner table, which I assume is a bug, and should probably be reported.
Surely this would help to determine if the OP does indeed have two nested tables, as Brian suspects? Paul On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:58:09 +0100 Mark Bourne <[email protected]> wrote: > Vincent Rubiolo wrote: > > Hello Brian > > > > On 08/25/2014 10:28 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > >> One possibility here is that structure of your document is more > >> complex than simply cells of table. Have you perhaps got a table - > >> even if only of a single cell - inside a cell of another table? If > >> so, you may have the relevant cell of the outer, containing table > >> protected with the cell of the inner table not protected. As the > >> outer cell is protected, you cannot change the properties of the > >> inner table cell, so the Cell > submenu there will indeed show a > >> greyed-out <No selection possible>. > >> > >> The solution is to unprotect the outer table cell. If there is no > >> room to get your cursor into the outer table cell without it being > >> also in the inner table cell (so you cannot get to the relevant > >> context menu), put the cursor at the end of the text in the inner > >> cell and press Alt+Enter. You'll then have space to get to the > >> context menu you require. > >> > >> I trust this helps. > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. Even though the document structure is > > very simple (I don't think there are nested tables), I have tried > > what you advised. However, this does not work because 'Alt+Enter' > > modifies the cell (inserts a newline),something I cannot do for my > > read-only cell. The key combination thus does nothing, whereas it > > does insert the newline when I am in the other part of the document > > (the one which is writable). > > That suggests that you do have tables within cells of an outer table, > since Alt+Enter otherwise does nothing. > > Another thing you can do to access the outer table cell is to > position the cursor at the end of the last cell of the table which is > within another table's cell, and press the right arrow key. The > cursor moves out of the inner table, but still within the outer > table's cell. It looks like a new line has been added, but that's > just for display and still works even when the cell is protected; the > extra line disappears again if you move out of that cell without > adding anything. > > If you're not sure which cells might be the last cell of an inner > table, it's probably the last one which you can't modify. Otherwise, > just try pressing right arrow from the end of each cell in turn. > > > Unless you have more suggestions, at this point, I think I will > > open a bug report so that I can attach the document and people can > > try things out. > > Bug reports are for reporting faults in the software. Unless the > protected areas of the document have resulted from a bug, the report > will quite likely be closed as invalid since the software is working > as intended by not allowing changes to protected cells. > > You're better off uploading the document to a file sharing service, > and pasting a link here. Alternatively, I hear the Nabble interface > to the mailing list allows you to upload attachments and includes a > link in the message email, although I've never used that so can't say > how to do it: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Users-f1639498.html > > Mark. > -- 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
