> > > 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. > > > > > Alan Boba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > On Nov 10, 2007 5:52 AM, Richard Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
I believe you've hit the nail on the head. The read-only setting is a flag to the app regarding what mode to open the document in. If the document is in .doc format there's no flag and Writer simply opens the document ignoring the read only password. There's a big difference between how Writer and MS Word handle read-only. Writer will open a Word read-only document however it doesn't prompt for the ro password and if the document is saved and then opened in Word the password is not prompted for, it's gone. In Writer the ro setting doesn't require a password. An .odt document that is marked ro and opened in Writer has no cursor/insertion point for editing. That can be changed by right-clicking in the document and selecting 'Edit' from the context menu. I was involved in a thread about ro documents not long ago. Came to the conclusion that in Writer, to make it apparent if a document is changed (a bit different than ro implementation in Word but achieves similar effect) then sign the document. Need to stick with .odt format for it to work. However there's plenty of reason's to want your documents in an open documented format. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
