Open Office (Read only)

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

My wife has a word document on a floppy. If it is loaded in kword or 
Abiword it loads incorrectly (formatting is all screwed up) but it loads 
in Read/Write mode. If we load it in OpenOffice it loads correctly but 
in Read only mode. If I copy files to a temp directory off her home 
directory OO will load them r/w and then I must copy the new files back. 
How can I get OO to open the files from the floppy in r/w mode so my 
wife can do this all herself. She is lost at the command line and I'm 
not always available to copy files for her. Other programs have no 
trouble opening in rw mode from floppy. They just can't get the 
formatting correct.
We're running Suse 9.1 on an HP Athlon notebook with a Teac usb external 
floppy.