Never mind, I un-installed open office and installed word perfect, that one I understand, and I don't get features I don't ask for. And I unchecked the read only check box, but it did not change anything....Thanks anyway, word perfect was on my computer when I purchased it, and I lost track of the disk sorry, I am 72 years old, and get a bit grouchy because I have a serious medical problem that requires many medications, well you must know the side-effect of that....Have a good year., William. William Atherton -------Original Message------- From: Arnold Huzen Date: 01/03/07 08:54:37 To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] William,
Jumping to conclusions in an angry state is never wise. Further, we are volunteers on this list donating our free time to help other users with their problems so please be polite and patient. I don't know how your document got read-only, but saving it under a different name usually helps in making it editable again. This is not just something with OpenOffice, but works with many filetypes. I'm not sure what you mean by frames around around text lines, but it could mean you working in a table. If that is the case you can try the following: Goto Table>Convert>Table to text and choose a way to delimit the columns of the table. OpenOffice is in many ways different from Microsoft Office or any Office suite that you may be used to. Take the time to get the know the suite. If you want some directions have a look at documentation.openoffice.org for user guides. And keep asking your questions here. With the large number of users worldwide this product cannot be only wrong. Arnold Huzen William Atherton schreef: Help! I have some very important data saved in Open Office Writer.....I am trying to add a line to the file, but somehow the damned thing is now "read only"...I did not request this, so how can I change it back to a regular editable file? And while I'm at it, what is with the damned frames around text lines? They pop up whenever I try to ad a new line of info without my requesting it....this program has some very annoying quirks that I have no use for...Free or not, I need a reliable place to keep license numbers, credit card info etc. I only got as far as one page of data, then the whole thing became uneditable and is now "read only"...This is a crappy piece of unruly software! William Atherton
