In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Boba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 12:00 PM, mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9 Nov 2007 at 16:31, Richard Travers wrote: ... > > > The point is that OOo appears to allow you to set a document to be > > > saved as Read Only (Tools>Options>OOo>Security>File Sharing > > > Options...Open this document in read-only mode) but that it does not > > > appear to work. > > > > > > What are I and the OP missing, or is this a bug?
> >On Nov 9, 2007 12:00 PM, mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can't answer for 2.1; under 2.3 it seems to behave as expected. Start a > > new document, set the readonly option, save, close; reopen -- can't > > edit it. Although it's not flagged by the OS as ro. It seems you then > > have to save as a new document to get write access back. > > > Actually, for OOo 2.3 under Windows XP Pro, right click on the document. > The context menu will include an "Edit" item. Click "Edit" and you're > back to normal document with live cursor. At least that's what happens on > my system. Sorry to go on about this, but the problem that I and the OP had (she on OOo 2.1 and I on OOo 2.3) was that going through the procedure Tools> Options> Security etc to set 'Read Only' mode did _not_ apparently work (contrary to Mike Scott's experience). The answer appears to be that it works if you save in .odt format, but not if you save as a .doc. It would be nice to inform the OP of this, but unfortunately I have now lost her original posting. Anyone else still have it? R -- Richard Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Truro, Cornwall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
