Check the folder the file is in. Normally you will find the same file name with a prefix of ~ added. the other file name is how Open office knows it was being edited. You have 2 choices: 1) Open the file with the ~ prefix – this should contain some of the changes made during the last edit session. 2) Delete the ~ prefix file. This loses all your changes but takes away locked for editing message.
Howard Morris From: Melissa Warnkin Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 12:05 PM To: dev@community.apache.org ; SOUNDARAM PADMANABHAN Cc: OOo Apache Subject: Re: Question relating to a problem in Open Office Thank you for your inquiry. I have copied in the OpenOffice folks to this email to prompt a quick reply to your question. Have a nice day,~MelissaExecutive Assistant From: SOUNDARAM PADMANABHAN <padmanabhan_2...@yahoo.co.in> To: "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 8:58 AM Subject: Question relating to a problem in Open Office Sir Would like to ask a question relating to a problem faced by me in Open Office. Whilst working in a text document in Open Office, power trip forced the computerto shut down. On opening the document in which I was working the following message pops up Document Locked for Editing Question : How to remove this feature - Locked for Editing? Regards S. Padmanabhan