Re: [libreoffice-users] Parts of document set to read-only by Writer: how to disable (normal methods not working)?

Vincent Rubiolo wrote:
> Dear LibreOffice users,
>
> I am running LO 4.2.6.2 on Fedora 20 (4.2.6.2-1.fc20) and I am updating
> Writer a document originally coming from OpenOffice.
>
> It is a one page list of errands, with contents in 2 tables. I can edit
> part of the document correctly (one table) but the other is uneditable
> because it is actually read-only. I can see that from the disalog that
> pops-up when attempting to edit ("Readonly content cannot be changed.").
>
> The problem is that I:
> 1. AFAIK never asked for this part of the document to be read-only.
> 2. am unable to change that back to editable.
>
> Indeed, most solutions I have found ask to select the text/table and
> Choose Edit->Sections to enable back editing. In my case (attached
> captures), I can see the 'Sections' menu being grayed out in both cases.
> Also note how many more items are greyed out when in the read-only part
> of the document.
>
> Could sb tell me what I need to do here? I have been searching for hours
> on a way to do that without success...
>
> Thanks for your help on this matter!
>
> Vincent

To protect cells in a table, you can select them and either use the menu 
Table > Protect Cells, or right-click > Cell > Protect. You may have 
accidentally clicked one of those option at some point and not noticed 
since there's no immediately obvious effect; it's easily done.

Having done that, Table > Protect Cells is disabled so can't select that 
again to remove protection. However, you can right-click > Cell > 
Unprotect. A bit inconsistent, but hopefully that helps!

I've submitted bug 83011 to report the inconsistency in options to 
remove cell protection:
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83011

Mark.

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