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Mortem et Gloriam Players forum => Player Discussion => Topic started by: victhepict on August 21, 2020, 06:42:06 PM

Title: has anyone seen this error when using office libre for the army calculator?
Post by: victhepict on August 21, 2020, 06:42:06 PM
at random interval when trying to use the army spreadsheet i get an error message, basically it comes up saying that it is not protected but i must input the password.  any ideas?  is there some protection on the spreadsheet that i need to remove?

Title: Re: has anyone seen this error when using office libre for the army calculator?
Post by: Gower on August 21, 2020, 09:42:18 PM
Tends to happen once the file has been open for a while? Go to "Tools" and select "Protech Sheet" which is towards the bottom of the drop down list. Open it and dd the password and OK that. That should fix things.


Wayne
Title: Re: has anyone seen this error when using office libre for the army calculator?
Post by: victhepict on August 22, 2020, 05:45:33 PM
Wayne

yes, it happens after it has been open a while, normally not quite long enough to produce an army list.  I've opened the Protect Document in Tools - the window say unprotect sheet, has a blank box with Password (Optional) above it and three buttons to press - help, OK and cancel.  no matter what put into the password box and even if i type nothing clicking on OK or cancel tells me that the password is invalid.

i'm stumped, i need to use the calculator to generate an army and it doesn't work - clearly i'm doinf asomething wrong.  i downloaded Office libre as suggested but it just keeps locking itself
Title: Re: has anyone seen this error when using office libre for the army calculator?
Post by: ShrubMiK on August 22, 2020, 06:09:43 PM
I had it happen a few times, but then I seem to have managed to avoid it. Maybe I have just been lucky; but saving the sheet early, and re-saving often, seemed to do the trick.
Title: Re: has anyone seen this error when using office libre for the army calculator?
Post by: Richard D on August 23, 2020, 03:58:23 PM
Is it because something is trying to make changes to a protected area?  Which could well be possible if you are doing some copying and pasting across a range of cells.