One read-only letter in writer document

[nsivin]

I am using LO Writer in Qiana Mate on a PC. I am editing a file that I created, have previously revised, and am now revising again. I wanted to delete once occurrence of the word “own,” but can’t. It turns out that the letter “o” is read-only. (When I copied it into this document, it is not read-only here: o).

I tried copying the whole file with a new name, but that made no difference. I also tried changing the permissions for the whole file to 777, but the letter still can’t be deleted. Any idea what is going on?

[dajare]

That sounds quite bizarre! There might be a rational explanation, but meanwhile you could save a copy of your file as “OpenDocument Text (Flat XML) (.fodt)”, and then open the *.fodt file in a simple text-editor (Gedit? “Pluma”?) and delete the offending word/letter - it might also reveal what is going on with the strange character.