Description: When table cells are protected, any attempt to enter data brings a warning message which might disturb the user and break the workflow. I think it would be useful to be able to configure Writer so that these warning messages are not displayed. A good place could be in the options dialog: LibreOffice Writer > Formatting aids, add a checkbox in the "Protected zones" area, labelled like "Show warning messages" (checked by default). I think that both the "read-only" status in the status bar and the lock toolbutton present in the Table toolbar are sufficient clues if the warning message is not displayed. Note: the option of deactivating the cursor in protected cells actually gets rid of the said warning. This would be disturbing because in this situation the user can't actually locate his actions/the insertion point within the document. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a table 2. Select a cell 3. Menu Table > Protect cells Actual Results: Trying to enter data in that cell results in a warning message. Expected Results: Trying to enter data in that cell does just nothing visible. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info:
Sounds useful to me, but let's ask design-team.
The topic is scheduled for the next design meeting (postponed from this week). Setting to NEW meanwhile.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to hide such warning. Many questions will follow from users that deactivate the warning and forget it sometime or someone else has deactivated it (son, administrator, teacher) and the user then don't know what to do. Maybe the warning can be made less intrusive--maybe within the info bar?
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. There are some concerns to disable the warning message though the message box is a bit heavy. Since the r/w state can vary from cell to cell, an infobar is not working well, neither the status bar panel is enough. The message box is similarly popping up in Calc. So we either keep the current workflow and introduce some "[ ] Don't show again" interaction (useful for several other requests) with the drawback that this dialog not shows up later at another table, or we show the box only once per table (would be some additional coding effort), and last but not least we could grey out the protected cells, perhaps combined with field shading on/off. The latter would be my preference.
Please please either fix this bug (120726) or bug https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139304: there are too many rows which slows things down to a crawl (or gives waiting times up to a minute) often when using ctrl+shift+down or ctrl+shift+left and/or applying mark up. Protecting all cells except 20x200 at the top left, could maybe be a good solution to problem 139304. I think anyone of these bugs would achieve my goal to have a quick responding Calc all the time and without any useless warnings. I don't know why Calc slows down so much or gives very long waiting times; but it does NOT do so if I select / apply mark up to a limited number of cells. Than everything is very rapid.
"Please explain how I can experience the wait that is causing you problems." I don't know. I gave up, spending hours and hours to find a solution. I'm not using scalc anymore; it was unworkable for me in the sheet I wanted to make. The only difference I could see, was the number of cells you copied it to. BTW: waiting 1 second is still 1 second to much, if you do such copying often. In Excel, the wait is 0 seconds, doing the exact same.
I'm sorry, my previous comment should be in id=139304. I see no option to remove the comment. I hope a mod want to delete it (and this comment).