Hello all.

I discovered that if you go to "Edit/Links...", select a linked file, click
on "break link" button (or however is called in English) and press the "ok"
button then you aren't able to add new linked data ever again.

I have OO3.0RC4 on Windows XP

To reproduce do the following:

1) Create new calc document
2) Enter "hello" into cell B4
3) Enter "bye" into cell B5
4) Save the file with any name, for example "first.ods"
5) Create another calc document
6) Go to cell C2
7) Enter the "=" sign (don't press the "Enter" key yet)
8) Go to "first.ods" file and select the B4 cell
9) Press "Enter"

Here you can see "hello" at C2 in the second document

10) Press "Backspace" key (to delete the formula)
11) Go to menu "Edit/Links..."
12) Select the link to "first.ods" file
13) press the "break link" button
14) accept the form in order to close it
15) Go to cell C8
16) again enter a "=" sign (don't press "Enter" key yet)
17) again go to "first.ods" file but now select the B5 cell
18) Press Enter

Here you should see "bye" at C8 in the second document, but instead of this
you get a "0".

And the menu item "Edit/Links..." is disabled

I also tried saving the second document and what ever came into my mind but
couldn't get remote data from first.ods file again.
I found out It is possible to get linked data from other documents, but
hever from first.ods.

How to restore the link to the first.ods document?

I hope someone could test it to see if he/she can reproduce it.


Thank you all in advance

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