Re: [libreoffice-users] locked docx file

On 22/09/13 14:42, Brian Barker wrote:
> 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
Thanks, Brian.

That works. I can show/hide and choose to record changes with those 
options. Although you are correct regarding good editing protocol, I 
think in this case the options had been turned on by mistake at some 
point.. at least displaying the changes anyhow. It only happened on one 
of the documents I have to work on. In general, the editor is happy for 
me to format the articles and make some small edits. I am not sure we're 
tracking changes to the degree we should be. Before this quirk, I had 
been copying and pasting articles' content into a template and saving as 
ODT in order to get consistent documents and remove any MS quirks. Maybe 
that was not the best method afterall and I could have saved the docs as 
.odt then loaded the templates styles using the "overwrite" option -- 
but I'd been experieincing some quirks there and had discussed the best 
way to go about things on this list beforehand. I think my method is ok 
for the current project.. but no doubt I could improve the process as I 
learn more.

Regards,
Ryan
>


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