Cells of a table in Writer can be protected through either the Table menu or the right-click context menu. However, there is no option on the Table menu to remove protection; as far as I can see, the only way to do that is through the context menu to do that. Steps to reproduce: - Create a table in Writer. - Select one or more cells. - Look on the Table menu; note that there is a "Protect Cells" option. - Right click on the selected cells; note that there is a Cell > Protect option. - Use either of the above two options to protect the cells. - Look on the Table menu; note that the "Protect Cells" option is disabled, and there is no option to remove protection. - Right click on the selected cells; there is a Cell > Unprotect option. Actual behaviour: - There is no option on the Table menu to remove cell protection. Expected behaviour: - There should be an option on the Table menu to remove cell protection, when protected cells are selected. Platform is set to Windows x86 as that's what I use, but I suspect this will affect all platforms.
(In reply to comment #0) > Steps to reproduce: > - Create a table in Writer. > - Select one or more cells. > - Look on the Table menu; note that there is a "Protect Cells" option. > - Right click on the selected cells; note that there is a Cell > Protect > option. > - Use either of the above two options to protect the cells. Additional step needed here - re-select the cells protection was just applied to, since the cursor is moved after applying protection. > - Look on the Table menu; note that the "Protect Cells" option is disabled, > and there is no option to remove protection. > - Right click on the selected cells; there is a Cell > Unprotect option.
Confirmed under windows 7 x64 with 4.2.6.3 Confirmed under mint 17 x64 with 4.2.6.3 and 4.3.1.2 Version 4.2.6.2 (windows) still had a menuitem 'table -> cell -> protect/unprotect' This has been removed and 'protect cells' has been directly put in the table menuitem. I think this was to bring the windows version inline with the linux versions. Unfortunally they seems to have the same problem, no unprotect menuitem, a bit longer. Set to NEW, ALL First version under windows that has this bug is 4.2.6.3, set to v4.2.6.2 (can't set it to 4.2.6.3), but could be set lower as linux versions seems to have it for quite a while.
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As discussed in this mailing list thread: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg45824.html The context menu has been removed in LibreOffice 5.0 which, with no "Unprotect Cells" option in the Table menu, makes it difficult to remove table cell protection. A new bug 93713 was filed to add the "Unprotect Cells" option to the Table menu and it looks like that's been resolved for the next 5.x release. I guess this one may as well be closed as a duplicate of bug 93713... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 93713 ***