saving a copy, under file, worked to create a writable version, exact fascimile (unlike cutting and pasting).
Thank you all for your help On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Now the confusion is that MS Outlook does allow this behaviour so people > assume that's the way it should be done. Even though they lose files they > still grumble about the idea of having to download to a known location. > Something that did catch their attention was the threading. MS Outlook > just can't manage it. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Tanstaafl <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2013, 21:14 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] downloaded .doc file will only open as > read-only > > > On 2013-09-29 12:46 AM, Dave Liesse <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is what I was going to suggest, as well. Any document I get via > > email is read-only, regardless of its source software (I use Thunderbird > > as my client). > > It wasn't always - less recent version of Thunderbird would open > attachemnts in read/write mode, and this was a major source of confusion > for our users - they would open a document, make changes, just click > 'save', then couldn't find their changes... I'd have to help them dig > out the modified document from their Temp folder. > > I was very happy when Thunderbird changed this so that email attachments > were opened in read only mode. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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 > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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
