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

Good evening Mark,

Thank you very much for your insightful reply!

I have tried what you advised but unfortunately this does not work: when 
I go to the protected part of the document and click on the protected 
text, the right-click 'Cell' menu contains only a 'No selection 
possible' greyed entry.

The cell is the wrongly protected one because this is where I get the 
'read-only' popup I mentioned if I try to backspace at that point.

I can confirm the right-click contextual menu is otherwise the correct 
option because I can freely use it on the other table in the document to 
successfully protect (I then get the popup when attempting to edit the 
text) and unprotect a cell.

Is there something else that I could try? I can take screen captures but 
it seems the list does not accept attachments.

Thanks again,

Vincent

PS: thanks for opening the bug. In my case, I had a hard time realizing 
the cell was in read-only mode because i wanted to use search and 
replace and while the pattern was correctly found, the replacement was 
not working, without a clue as to why this happened. I think this 
warrants a bug report as well (there does not appear to be one on the 
bugzilla).

On 08/24/2014 04:28 AM, Mark Bourne wrote:
> 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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