Re: [libreoffice-users] locked docx file

At 14:11 22/09/2013 +0100, Nobody Noname wrote:
> I am having a strange problem with a locked docx file. The file 
> opens, it does not appear to be using LO's read only mode, but when 
> I try to edit a file, for example when I delete some text, it simply 
> inserts a strikethrough and changes the text colour. I can see all 
> the last editor's corrections in a similar manner.
>
> I tried using the "edit document" button, turning off read only mode 
> in file-->properties and tools-->options-->security, and saving as 
> .odt. No luck. I managed to rescue the content by copying and 
> pasting into a new odt... and strangely all the last editors changes 
> were implemented/hidden rather than being shown with a 
> strikethrough, but this meant that some of the comments attached to 
> deleted text were also removed.
>
> Any idea what is going on here?

Yes: you have the recording of changes switched on.  In general, you 
can disable this by removing the tick from Edit | Changes > | Record.

But this may be intentional.  You mention a previous editor.  If this 
material is to be returned to that editor, he or she will not want to 
consider the entire document again from scratch to see what you may 
or may not have altered, but will want to be able to see exactly what 
changes you have made.  If it is to be passed to someone else, they 
will want to see both the changes you have made and - hopefully 
separately - the previous changes.  It is possible in Microsoft Word 
to lock what Word calls Track Changes, so the document can be edited 
but you cannot disable the recording of changes.  I don't know 
whether that locking carries over into LibreOffice and back into 
Word, but I'd hope it would - and it sounds as though it has.

If this is the actual scenario, the previous editor will not thank 
you for upsetting the protocol by creating a new document!  If you 
prefer, you may be able to suppress the display of your and other 
changes changes at Edit | Changes > | Show.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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