Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unprotect readonly parts of a document?

Hi :)
Err, you could try copy&pasting in or re-pasting but use 
Shift Ctrl v
to paste in as unformatted text.  But then you will lose the functionality of the strange 9 thing
Regards from 
Tom :)




> ________________________________
> From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> To: Michael Manning <michaelgmanning@gmail.com> 
> Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Friday, 17 May 2013, 15:57
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unprotect readonly parts of a document?
>
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2013, Michael Manning wrote:
>
> > This is very strange.  I have not seen this issue before.
> >
> > After experimenting with the file for a bit, I found that
> > 1. I saved the file to my disk
> > 2. added a space at the beginning of the line
> > 3 saved the file again
> > 4. closed the file
> > 5 opened the file in LibreOffice.  I found that the read-only protection
> > had been removed.  I was then able to edit that read-only area of the line
> > - as well as remove the space at the beginning of the line.
>
> That doesn't work for me.
>
> > I would love to know how the file had been generated to cause this problem.
>
> I don't know the exact details.  In outline, the file was originally 
> created in Microsoft Word (probably on a Mac) and the readonly fields 
> were added by way of the EndNote plugin.  I then imported the .doc file 
> into LibreOffice and saved it in .odt format.
>
> Does this sound like a bug?  Perhaps I should report it.
>
> Here's another odd thing I encountered.  Moving the cursor one
> character at a time (using the right-arrow key), I find what appears to
> be two hidden characters: one at the beginning of the readonly field
> and one at its end.
>
> That is, start with the cursor just to the left of the blank space
> before the "(9)" field.  Pressing right-arrow advances the cursor to
> the right of the space, leaving it on the left-hand edge of the '('.  
> Pressing right-arrow again doesn't move the cursor at all.  Pressing it
> once more advances the cursor between the '(' and '9'.
>
> Alan Stern
>
>
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