How to turn off the cursor in OpenOffice

Question

When OpenOffice opens a file in read-only mode, it does not show a cursor, and the arrow keys (up and down) will move the page instead of the cursor.

(By "cursor", I mean the blinking thing also called "caret" and not the mouse cursor.)

Is there any way to turn off the cursor when the document is not read-only?

Answer 1

Try the File | Page Preview menu selection. You will have to fuss with the Zoom. The Preview toolbar provides page turning buttons.

PS: For me, it is actually annoying that there is no cursor in read-only documents. It means you can't select text and copy it, etc.

In OpenOffice, there is no cursor where you can't type. I suspect that is hard-wired. (This has got to be an interesting accessibility issue though.)

Answer 2

Just save and close the document, then open it again

Answer 3

I found a workaround that works on Unix systems. If I remove write-mode from the document (chmod -w mydoc), OpenOffice won't diplay a cursor and the arrow keys will move the page.