How to make a document Read-Write ?

users
#1

I have created a Text document file… sent it to a recipient who
notes it is Read-only.

How do I make the file Read-Write in order that he be able work the file at his end.

(I’ve consulted LibreOffice Help… the instructions under Read only don’t work…. (Select) is greyed out.)

Sheafe Ewing

#2

Chances are that if you emailed it, your recipient opened it directly
from his/her email program. This often creates a read-only copy in
temporary storage. This is not a problem with the document. You need to
tell your recipient to *save* the file from within his/her email client
first, then check that the saved file is not read-only (right-click,
Properties, Read-only under Attributes at the bottom, on Windows 7),
and then open it in LO.

Hope this helps.

Paul

#3

Sheafe Ewing wrote:

I have created a Text document file… sent it to a recipient who
notes it is Read-only.

How do I make the file Read-Write in order that he be able work the file at his end.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with LO and the problem lies with the file
permissions in his OS.

My guess is that he uses some flavour of Linux and he opens the document
from the email. I'm using Ubuntu and when I open a document from an
email in Thunderbird, it save an read-only copy in /tmp and LO opens the
document from there.

Can you ask the recipient to save the document first and open it from
this location?

#4

Hi.
As previously stated, it is probably read only as the file is in temporary storate from the email. He can click the Edit button 2 to the right of the file file save button to edit.
Steve