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. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > >
Thanks for the information and sorry for the delayed response. I'll give this a try and will report back my findings! :) Peace... Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
