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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] Unprotecting table cell
From:       Urska Colner <urska.colner () agenda ! si>
Date:       2004-11-05 10:04:10
Message-ID: 418B501A.807 () agenda ! si
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hi claire

i'm working in OOo 1.1.2 on SuSE 9.1 and I can 
still click in a cell, even though it is 
protected. i can't, however, enter anything in it 
as it gives me the 'You can't enter things in 
protected areas' message.

we are talking about Writer table, aren't we?

if you're talking about Calc spreadsheet, you'll 
have to unprotect the Sheet (Tools - Protect 
document - Sheet) or Document to unprotect the 
cells. then, if you wish to protect other cells, 
you'll (again) have to define which cells you wish 
to be *not protected* (select cells, right-click, 
Format cells... - uncheck Protected). then, you'll 
have to do Toold - Protect document again.

urska

Claire Trocmé wrote:
> Thank you, Roderick. That is indeed what the Help topic suggests on this
> point, but my specific difficulty is that it is still proving impossible to
> click in the cell. Has anyone else come across this problem (perhaps in
> Windows, as Roderick suggests)?
> 
> I am so far very impressed with OpenOffice, and am enjoying using it and
> getting to know it. 
> 
> I am still perplexed by this question and do need a solution, if anyone has
> experience of this, or an idea.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Claire
> 
>  
> In article <1099247769.31041.14.camel@gerrypc.pathtech.org>,
>    G. Roderick Singleton <gerry@pathtech.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 20:01, Claire Trocmé wrote:
> 
>  
> 
>>>I am using 00o 1.1.1 in Windows XP Home, and the document was one I
>>>received as a Word file. I am now working on it as an OpenOffice (.sxw)
>>>file.
> 
> 
>>I think the answer to your question is to click in the writer table cell
>>and click Format > Cells > Unprotect and I see no reason why you cannot
>>do this as I can on my system (RH9). Perhaps this is a windows thing.
> 
> 
>>>Having protected a cell in a table, I consulted "Help" to find out how to
>>>unprotect it and found my answer, i.e. select the cell, Format-> Cell->
>>>Unprotect.
>>>
>>>Easy enough, except that being protected, the cell will not let me put the
>>>cursor into it in order to select it.
> 
> 
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