Why are the properties that control views greyed out?

Have you ever been in a situation where Revit wouldn't let you change a view property such as detail level, scale, shading, or even unhide an element?

It may be because you have used a view template to get it to look the way it currently does. Revit wont let you change these things until the view template is reset. (Why? Why? Why? autodesk?)

It's not as easy as you would first think.  You cant get to it via the ribbon.  You have to go over to the view properties page -> click on the current view template name -> change the view template to none.  (this is not an option when you go to view template thru the ribbon)  Now you can change anything you want but it leaves it as it was.

Woo Hoo.  First post in forever!