Just to add that this is still present and an annoyance.
OO won't even let you apply a sort to the data if it's been opened read-
only and I can imagine this would be quite a problem in a corporate
situation where a user might only have read access to a document and you
don't want them to be creat
** Changed in: openoffice (upstream)
Status: Unknown => Confirmed
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Feature Request: Read-only document should be editable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97292
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Feature Request: Read-only document should be editable
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I don’t know if that should just be replaced in the tracker above or
added. I tried adding it, but Launchpad did not seem to like that
idea...
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Feature Request: Read-only document should b
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Feature Request: Read-only document should be editable
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Using fully updated Ubuntu Feisty—so OOo 2.2.0~rc3~oof680m10-0ubuntu3 at
the moment. However, this has been a persistent thing—I just never got
around to putting the feature request in like I had meant to long ago,
considering that the use case for editing data like that did not come up
very often
Thanks for your report.
I just attempted e-mailing myself a document and I was able to edit it,
then I realized it wasn't read-only but located in tmp. So I created a
new file and performed a chmod 444 to make it read only to everyone and
opened that file. I can confirm you can't write in it, but