At 17:59 05/09/2014 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote:
Now that I have created my invoice form, I went into file/properties and checked 'open as read only', so the form does not get "filled in". Then I decided to make some improvements. When I opened the file, of course, it is set to read only, so I went to properties and found the check box grayed out, so I exited LO and used Linux to set the file to read/write for me and my group (of me).
It's worth mentioning that this is irrelevant to what you are doing. The file properties kept by your operating system (Linux) are separate from the setting you found at File | Properties... | Security, which is saved in the document file and not as part of its file properties. The file is not read-only but only *open as* read-only.
When I opening the file, I found it was still grayed out.
Because you have not changed the internal read-only restriction. (Catch-22!)
Help explained how to edit the file, ...
Using the Edit File button in the Standard toolbar? Good.
... but when I went to save it, it would only save as 'save as'.
I don't think this is normal. If this happened, I think you must have set the operating system file properties to read-only - the opposite of what you meant to do. If so, Edit File will allow you to edit only a copy, not the original file, and that new copy will yet have no name or path and will need Save As... to save it.
How do I change the setting so it does not go to 'read only' when I open the file in LO?
First set the operating system property back to allow editing (as it would have been at the start). Click the Edit File button. The File | Properties... | Security setting will now no longer be greyed out.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- 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
