On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 09:18 +0200, Martin Fox wrote: > Jean > I can confirm that your findings are repeatable. It seems that the > document has only to be marked shared, it is not necessary that a second > user has it open, for this behaviour to show up. > > The Share Document dialog box does give a small hint when it states: > > "Note: Changes to ... will not be saved and some functionalities like ... > are not available in shared mode. Turn off shared mode to get exclusive > access needed for those changes and functionalities." > > So it would appear that insertion of comments is one of these not > available functionalities. Why exactly you can edit/delete but not insert > is not clear to me. > > It is possible that the concept of recording changes in Calc depends on > the comment function and so somehow is linked with the inability to insert > new comments in shared mode. > > I note in addition that one cannot format the page, record changes > (probably this one is obvious?), insert a picture from file, define ranges > (including a print range) and work with names (among other things) in a > shared spreadsheet. > > We do have comments (!) in the Guide to this effect: > > "Some menu commands are not available (grayed out) when change tracking or > document sharing is activated." > and > When you open a spreadsheet document that is in shared mode, you see a > message that the document is in shared mode and that some features are not > available in this mode. > > Do you think it necessary to further amplify the text on p4 in the > section "Sharing documents (collaboration)"?
I think readers would appreciate more elaboration of just what they cannot do, instead of finding out by trial and error (and wondering, like I did, if I'd done something wrong). Your list above would do, though an even more complete list would be welcome too. I looked briefly in the Help but didn't find anything detailed; of course, I could have missed it. Do you want to add something, or shall I? I've put the chapter (incorporating your other edits) back in Drafts and it's on the Review List. --Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
