Mark, On 06/25/2012 11:40 PM, Mark McDougall wrote: > Hi all, > > I've Googled and also searched the mailing list archives but can't find a > solution to this that works for me. > > Opened a word document and saved (copy) as odt. I'm heavily editing the > file and have come across a couple of 'fields' in the footer that I can't > edit or delete. Attempting to delete, or delete the text, results in a > pop-up saying that you can't delete read-only portions of the document. > > These were originally fields in the word document. Showing 'field names' > in LibreOffice doesn't show any names for these 2 fields. I know one of > them was referencing a cell in a table on the 1st page - something we have > not been able to replicate in OO in the past. They're obviously fields > that OO/LO can't deal with. I'm not concerned about being able to > replicate the field - I'm happy to simply delete the field and hard-code > the text, but I can't even do that!?! > > Any ideas on how to remove these 'read-only' fields? > > TIA > Regards, > If might try editing the odt file instead of the doc file.
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