Read only content cannot be changed, no modifications will be accepted
I have tried going into Options, Writer, Formating Aids and unticking Cursor in Protected Areas.
I have seen so many posts about this but never see a successful solution. Its a very comment problem. Please can this get solved. I want to recommend that my customers change to LibreOffice but how can I when a problem as big as this exsists.
I am using 4.3.0.4, On Windows 8.1
@"Nick Halliwell": You posted a question and updated it stressing it's urgency. There were three answers meanwhile. Would you be so kind to tell us which answer met (part of) your question - or in which way the contributors may have misunderstood it? It should also be helpful to get linked here some of the "many posts about this". you have seen to better understand the problem.
Lupp, the title of the post "Read only content cannot be changed. No modifications will be accepted." is the exact text of the error dialog. It has nothing to do with write-protected files, email attachments stored in /tmp, and the only "solution" out there is to delete the "protected" text. It is a known bug since 2011
http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/7289
and the correct answer to this post is "this is a known bug since 2011 and it is still marked as "NEW".
I have the same issue.
I never had experienced that specific problem - and therefore had another notion of the subject's meaning. The topic in libreofficeforum you linked in is containing one link to a bug report from 2013-06-19. It also contains an attached example which is showing for me the "fieldmark highlighting" contributors tak about but the text contained is editable for me with Writer V4.3.2 under Win 8.1 (alas!). Nonetheless we have clearly a (complicated?) bug.
"... It has nothing to do with write-protected files, ... " It might have to do with the history of the document and its former states as a file stored and loaded by whatever software with whatever filters in whatever formats.
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Just inspected the content.xml out of the above mentioned example. The problematic fields were fragmented in a ridiculous way. Don't think that can be the result of a curriculum vitae under the rule of odf.
http://mednis.info/wp/?p=168
Got here because of also getting the "Write-protected content cannot be changed." message and searching for answers. In my case saved original document as *.doc (97-2003), lost some Form Controls (Radio Buttons, List Box) in the process. Later Saved As *.odt to fix document and re-do the Controls. Check Boxes changed to grey, could not delete them, got above message. Read this post, selected one character before and one after Check Box, then deleted it successfuly! Thanks for the help.