At 19:34 11/08/2014 -0700, Tom Williams wrote:
My dad is a long time OpenOffice user and today he called me about a
problem he's having with one of his spreadsheets. Apparently, he hides rows
to reduce the amount of information he sees when he's looking at the
spreadsheet. Today, he needed to change a cell in one of the hidden rows.
When he tried to make a change, he showed the row but wasn't able to change
a cell because something prevented him from making changes. When he showed
the hidden row, he saw an icon for an anchor and green squares along the
perimeter of the selection of the now shown rows.
He sent the spreadsheet to me and when I open it in LibreOffice Calc,
4.2.4.2 on Linux, I see the same behavior he describes. From what I can
tell, it looks like Calc converts the hidden row into an image or graphic
of some kind such that when he tries to change it, he can't because those
rows are now part of an image/graphic or "object" that's embedded in the
file.
I doubt very much that Calc has converted values to a picture of those
values. But yes: you very probably do have a graphic or other object in or
covering the relevant cells. If you need to modify a cell which appears
inaccessible because of an overlaid graphic, there are a number of ways to
do this.
o You can type the cell reference into the Name Box and then edit the
contents in the Input Line.
o You can (temporarily?) suppress display of the graphic at Tools |
Options... | LibreOffice Calc | View | Objects | Objects/Graphics.
o Most easily, you can send the graphic to the background using
right-click | Arrange > | To Background. If you do this, you may want to
bring it back to the front after you have completed the edit, but you will
not be able to select it by simply clicking on it precisely because it is
now in the background. One convenient way to select the graphic is to open
the Navigator (go to View | Navigator or press F5) and double-click the
name of the graphic. You can then use right-click | Arrange > | To
Foreground to reset the position.
Of course, if you cannot see the graphic and are not missing anything, it
may be that you don't want it and can merely delete it.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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