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

saving a copy, under file, worked to create a writable version, exact
fascimile (unlike cutting and pasting).

Thank you all for your help


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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 :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  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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