Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background (Readonly content cannot be changed...)
On Wed 25 Jan 2012 12:16:51 WST, Jay Lozier wrote: Often the grayed out areas are fields such as date, page number, etc. I am not sure why you can not delete them, have you saved the file as *.odt and then try editing. Yep, tried that — same problems. Fields can be updated, using ToolsUpdateFields (F9). Tried this too, still nothing. Are there other conditions under which sections of a document can become read only? Perhaps the fields thing is a red herring. — Jason -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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
Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background (Readonly content cannot be changed...)
On 01/25/2012 07:49 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: On Wed 25 Jan 2012 12:16:51 WST, Jay Lozier wrote: Often the grayed out areas are fields such as date, page number, etc. I am not sure why you can not delete them, have you saved the file as *.odt and then try editing. Yep, tried that — same problems. Fields can be updated, using ToolsUpdateFields (F9). Tried this too, still nothing. Are there other conditions under which sections of a document can become read only? Perhaps the fields thing is a red herring. — Jason .docx is a type of compressed archive which can be opened using zip-utility. You cna get to the raw xml file. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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
Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background (Readonly content cannot be changed...)
Jason Heeris wrote (25-01-12 13:49) Are there other conditions under which sections of a document can become read only? Yes, you can see the options in the dialog Edit Section (with the cursor in the section). -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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
[libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background (Readonly content cannot be changed...)
Hi, I have a document that was sent to me in 'docx' format. Certain blocks of text within it (always inside square brackets) are rendered with a grey background. I can click inside the grey area and edit the contents, and I can edit the rest of the document, but if I select an entire block of the grey text and try to delete it, a dialog pops up saying: Readonly content cannot be changed. No modifications will be accepted. There is only an OK button on the dialog. I don't know what the grey background represents, but it seems to be more than formatting (if I clear direct formatting, the grey background remains). I can delete all of the contents of the grey-background text, so that it seems to disappear, but then I can't backspace past it (no error, it's just that the backspace key does nothing), nor can I delete any block of text containing what is now an invisible element (same error as above). It's not a file permission problem, or some sort of whole-document-write-protection problem, since I can edit other parts of the document. How do I remove these blocks of text? This is in LibreOffice 3.4.5 under Ubuntu 11.10 (package is libreoffice-writer 1:3.4.5-0ubuntu1). Thanks, Jason -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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
Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background (Readonly content cannot be changed...)
Jason, On 01/24/2012 08:47 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: Hi, I have a document that was sent to me in 'docx' format. Certain blocks of text within it (always inside square brackets) are rendered with a grey background. I can click inside the grey area and edit the contents, and I can edit the rest of the document, but if I select an entire block of the grey text and try to delete it, a dialog pops up saying: Readonly content cannot be changed. No modifications will be accepted. There is only an OK button on the dialog. I don't know what the grey background represents, but it seems to be more than formatting (if I clear direct formatting, the grey background remains). I can delete all of the contents of the grey-background text, so that it seems to disappear, but then I can't backspace past it (no error, it's just that the backspace key does nothing), nor can I delete any block of text containing what is now an invisible element (same error as above). It's not a file permission problem, or some sort of whole-document-write-protection problem, since I can edit other parts of the document. How do I remove these blocks of text? This is in LibreOffice 3.4.5 under Ubuntu 11.10 (package is libreoffice-writer 1:3.4.5-0ubuntu1). Often the grayed out areas are fields such as date, page number, etc. I am not sure why you can not delete them, have you saved the file as *.odt and then try editing. Fields can be updated, using ToolsUpdateFields (F9). Thanks, Jason -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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
