Table in Writer

Hello all,

I have a writer document that I have created (.odt) that has
various fields and what not and a table.  The table
does some calculations based on an initial value.
Now my problem is that I can only edit that initial
value when Open Office is in 'design' mode.  Any attempt
to change it outside of design mode tells me I cannot
edit read only fields.  Now I can see with most of my other
fields, entries in the properties to set it as read only,
but in the case of this table, there is no such analogy that
I can find.  I've seen other documents where this works so why
is this one being onery?

One other issue I would like to solve is, would there be a way
to reset this 'form' to blank.  What I would like to have is the
person working fills out the form clicks save or print and then have a
button that would blank it out or some equivalent workaround.,,rather than

G of Borg wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a writer document that I have created (.odt) that has
> various fields and what not and a table.  The table
> does some calculations based on an initial value.
> Now my problem is that I can only edit that initial
> value when Open Office is in 'design' mode.  Any attempt
> to change it outside of design mode tells me I cannot
> edit read only fields.  Now I can see with most of my other
> fields, entries in the properties to set it as read only,
> but in the case of this table, there is no such analogy that
> I can find.  I've seen other documents where this works so why
> is this one being onery?

Is the table locked for some reason? What version you running?

> 
> One other issue I would like to solve is, would there be a way
> to reset this 'form' to blank.  What I would like to have is the
> person working fills out the form clicks save or print and then have a
> button that would blank it out or some equivalent workaround.,,rather than
> having them go through some sort of file-save-close-open process.

I know you can do it in excel, however let me poke in oo.o...


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> Is the table locked for some reason? What version you running?

No.  At least I have never explicitly told it to be locked.
Is there a way to check that?

> 
> I know you can do it in excel, however let me poke in oo.o...

File>Reload could sorta work.

>> I know you can do it in excel, however let me poke in oo.o...
> 
> File>Reload could sorta work.