Re: [libreoffice-users] Read-only "fields"

Mark,

On 06/25/2012 11:40 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've Googled and also searched the mailing list archives but can't find a
> solution to this that works for me.
>
> Opened a word document and saved (copy) as odt. I'm heavily editing the
> file and have come across a couple of 'fields' in the footer that I can't
> edit or delete. Attempting to delete, or delete the text, results in a
> pop-up saying that you can't delete read-only portions of the document.
>
> These were originally fields in the word document. Showing 'field names'
> in LibreOffice doesn't show any names for these 2 fields. I know one of
> them was referencing a cell in a table on the 1st page - something we have
> not been able to replicate in OO in the past. They're obviously fields
> that OO/LO can't deal with. I'm not concerned about being able to
> replicate the field - I'm happy to simply delete the field and hard-code
> the text, but I can't even do that!?!
>
> Any ideas on how to remove these 'read-only' fields?
>
> TIA
> Regards,
If might try editing the odt file instead of the doc file.

-- 
Jay Lozier
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