Great that you have discovered the cause.
Now, if you could file an issue into Issue Tracker, it will be looked
at, diagnosed and possibly fixed.
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4. Once you have confirmed, go to www.openoffice.org again
5. And click on the "My Pages" tab from which you can file and find
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(c) G. Roderick Singleton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:41 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [users] Read Only - Or Not ???
>
> It was *not* the OS, it was OO.
>
> I found that, in Writer, under Format/Sections the two
> sections of the document were Write Protected.
>
> Unchecking the box for each section fixed the problem.
>
> The question remains, though, as to what causes this to
> happen. MS Word, on my friend's machine, clearly did not
> think the sections are protected.
>
> Anyone ?
>
> Harold Fuchs
> London, England
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kirill S. Palagin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:17 PM
> Subject: RE: [users] Read Only - Or Not ???
>
>
> It was made read-only by means of operating system, like
> being on CD or
> having read-only attribute set.
> Open that document, do File\Save As, choose location and provide
> appropriate name. Then you should be able to edit the file and then
> forward it to organisation.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:54 PM
> > To: OpenOfficeUsers
> > Subject: [users] Read Only - Or Not ???
> >
> > An organisation recently sent me an MS Word document, as an
> > e-mail attachment, and asked that I fill it in and e-mail it back.
> >
> > I don't use MS Word. I use OpenOffice, on Win XP/SP2.
> >
> > I opened the document and started filling it in. As soon as I
> > started typing I got an error message to the effect that the
> > document is Read Only and I can't modify it.
> >
> > I forwarded the e-mail to a friend who has MS Word. On his
> > system I could fill in the form; it was *not* read only.
> >
> > What is happening here, please?
> >
> > Harold Fuchs
> > London, England
> >
>
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