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Use-case:

  1. User clicks link in a web application

  2. A .ods (or alternatively .xls) file is being sent to user

  3. User opens file, fills in data, does C/P to browser form for further processing, discards file

The problem in #3 is: the file opens in read-only mode, so no data can be filled in.

What can I do, to open it in non read-only mode (or alternatively, how to configure libreoffice/openoffice to be able to fill in data in read-only mode).

The OS is Windows (XP/Vista/7). I can set arbitrary HTTP headers for file download and the only browser used with this application is Mozilla Firefox (Webrunner to be precise).

I can currently implement this use-case using .xls and MS Excel, but I would like to remove the cost of MS license.

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