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The content I am trying to edit is locked. Why, and how do I unlock it?
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Sunday, 10 February 2008

If you use Joomla 1.0.14  or earlier, you will encounter this issue, and you need to be prepard or you will be very frustrated.

WHEN EDITING CONTENT: AVOID YOUR BROWSER'S BACK BUTTON!

When editing a post: Train yourself to not use the Back Button on your browser – if you decide to leave the page without making any changes, only click Save or Cancel, or else you will be stuck with a post "locked" for editing and you won't be able to get back in.

 Only Use Save or Cancel:

icon_save.jpg icon_cancel.jpg

If you click < back on your browser, the post you are editing will lock and look like this: 

backend_locked.jpg

To break the lock, a Super Administrator has to log in and choose System > Global Checkin.

backend_globalcheckin.jpg 

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When I copy and paste hyphens, they show up in browsers as -?-
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Sunday, 10 February 2008
Delete the hyphen and retype it. If the problem is wide-spread, you will need a programmer who can run a "find-and-replace" against your database directly.
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When I paste from Word, the Text Editor Window adds extra spaces
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Sunday, 10 February 2008
Unfortunately, you have to manually delete the extra spaces.
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