Re: [libreoffice-users] Parts of document set to read-only by Writer: how to disable (normal methods not working)?

At 21:54 25/08/2014 -0700, Vincent Rubiolo wrote:
> On 08/24/2014 04:28 AM, Mark Bourne wrote:
> > To protect cells in a table, you can select them and either use the 
> > menu Table > Protect Cells, or right-click > Cell > Protect. You 
> > may have accidentally clicked one of those option at some point and 
> > not noticed since there's no immediately obvious effect; it's easily done.
> >
> > Having done that, Table > Protect Cells is disabled so can't select 
> > that again to remove protection. However, you can right-click > 
> > Cell > Unprotect. A bit inconsistent, but hopefully that helps!
>
> I have tried what you advised but unfortunately this does not work: 
> when I go to the protected part of the document and click on the 
> protected text, the right-click 'Cell' menu contains only a 'No 
> selection possible' greyed entry. The cell is the wrongly protected 
> one because this is where I get the 'read-only' popup I mentioned if 
> I try to backspace at that point. I can confirm the right-click 
> contextual menu is otherwise the correct option because I can freely 
> use it on the other table in the document to successfully protect (I 
> then get the popup when attempting to edit the text) and unprotect a cell.

One possibility here is that structure of your document is more 
complex than simply cells of table. Have you perhaps got a table - 
even if only of a single cell - inside a cell of another table? If 
so, you may have the relevant cell of the outer, containing table 
protected with the cell of the inner table not protected. As the 
outer cell is protected, you cannot change the properties of the 
inner table cell, so the Cell > submenu there will indeed show a 
greyed-out <No selection possible>.

The solution is to unprotect the outer table cell. If there is no 
room to get your cursor into the outer table cell without it being 
also in the inner table cell (so you cannot get to the relevant 
context menu), put the cursor at the end of the text in the inner 
cell and press Alt+Enter. You'll then have space to get to the 
context menu you require.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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