Re: [libreoffice-users] downloaded .doc file will only open as read-only

Hi :)
Now the confusion is that MS Outlook does allow this behaviour so people assume that's the way it 
should be done.  Even though they lose files they still grumble about the idea of having to 
download to a known location.  Something that did catch their attention was the threading.  MS 
Outlook just can't manage it.  
Regards from
Tom :)  




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 From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2013, 21:14
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] downloaded .doc file will only open as read-only
 

On 2013-09-29 12:46 AM, Dave Liesse <dsliesse@liessefamily.net> wrote:
> This is what I was going to suggest, as well.  Any document I get via
> email is read-only, regardless of its source software (I use Thunderbird
> as my client).

It wasn't always - less recent version of Thunderbird would open 
attachemnts in read/write mode, and this was a major source of confusion 
for our users - they would open a document, make changes, just click 
'save', then couldn't find their changes... I'd have to help them dig 
out the modified document from their Temp folder.

I was very happy when Thunderbird changed this so that email attachments 
were opened in read only mode.

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