how do you unlock a pages document? nothing I see on the forums duplicates my situation.

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The lock in System Preferences > Time Machine > Options is for documents. And you can uncheck the box to prevent all documents from locking.

A document with unsaved changes will have edited next to the document name in the title bar. If you hover your cursor to the right of the document name (& 'edited' if it exists), you will see a small disclosure triangle you can click on to get the options as in this screenshot.

WW,

There are two kinds of locking in play here. You may be having trouble distinguishing them. In Lion, any document will be locked after some period of time, as determined by your System Preferences. This is the Locked message that will appear with the document name on the window. There is also the ability to lock a file in the Document Inspector, Document Tab, that causes the person opening the file to supply a password to complete the operation.

So, if I understand your question correctly, the answer is to respond to the password prompt in the File Open dialog. If you are prompted for a password and you don't know the proper one and don't know who to ask for it, you're out of luck.

Still I have a hunch that I'm not quite reading your question correctly.

Jerry

WW,

System Preferences, Time Machine, Options has a check box that is active by default and a time period for locking of 2 weeks, again by default. If you don't like to be bothered by the locking, I suppose you could uncheck that box, but I've not tried it to see if it really turns off the feature. I like to be reminded if I'm about to modify an inactive file.

And, yes, there should be an Unlock control in the box that opens when you click the document name in the window banner, or whatever that top line is called.

I think that once you get a handle on the lock/unlock business you will be able to sort out your problems one at a time. Clearly, there's a good chance that dragging a graphic out of a document could be inhibited if the document is Locked, but that may just be a negative and undesired side effect of the lockinig, since I can't see what trouble it would cause.

I believe that if you look carefully, you will see that it is "- Edited", not "Edit", is displayed for a document that has been modified but not yet saved. That is another issue from the locking, I think.

Jerry

You can not drag and drop an image from your page because that is just moving it off your page onto the hidden desktop off the edge of the page.

You drag an image by grabbing its icon in Inspector > Metric > Information to the desktop. The method you are trying doesn't make sense in Pages. To reuse recurring graphics it is better to keep them in a folder in Finder, where you can easily see them with CoverFlow or enlarged icon preview and drag them into Pages as required.

You can also drag the folder of images into the Media Browser in Pages and drag from there.

Answers here are only as good and not "confusing" as the questions. You asked about document locking when the document was obviously not locked, as you could make changes to it.

Peter

wickedwitch23 wrote:

guess you didn't know about changing the document name either........

who clicks the "this solved my question" ?? you do those? cause my question is NOT answered at all.

nice that you tried tho.

I checked back to your original question, and it seems to me that your inquiry was pretty well covered.

Jerry