Write - New Text Documents in ReadOnly Mode

manutime27 · Newbie Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 2

Hi,

When I start Write to create a new document (File -> New -> Text Document. // OO2.2.)
I get a document in read only mode only.

Can't enter anything. It's only Write. Works fine with Spreadsheets, Presentations, etc.

Also if I open an exisiting document, I get into "read only" and can change the document. Edit button is enabled, but only gets me to 'real' read only mode if clicked.

Please help...

smsm1 · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:10 am Post subject:

Which OS are you using?

Hagar Delest · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

Have you a custom template ? Maybe it's read only, hence the setting cascaded to new documents.
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JZA · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject:

Might have been a permition problem. Also there might be issues with the location of the documents. For example if the document is in a read-only partition.

Please go to Save As > and then see if the read-only gets disabled.
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manutime27 · Newbie Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 2

This was under WINXP. Sorted now.

Had designed a form with a few fields filled from a DB (base). Looked OK after save first time.

Somehow however a link to the DB remained 'active' after closing OpenOffice and disallowed any additional editing of the form. Had to delete the database and start all over. Not sure what the reason was in the first place. No error message or crashes, etc.