Below is a request for help from a lady who risks being failed in a
professional exam because she used Calc to complete an Excel spreadsheet.
It seems that certain safeguards implanted by Excel were lost in the
process.
Is there any way for her to escape this predicament? She filed this
request with the Calc list and has also asked on the Calc forum. I have
asked on the users list whether there is some other avenue she might try.
This seems to be a trap about which potential users need to be warned.
Mabel Li wrote:
Hi,
I'm studying for my Chartered Accountant (CA). I recently completed an
Excel
based assignment, which is computer marked by the Institute. I
received my
marks and basically they have given me zero because they believe I have
tampered with the security protection of the Excel spreadsheet they
sent me
i.e. I cheated. I have done no such thing. My only crime is that I
used Calc
to complete the assignment.
I am posting this here because I stand to fail this subject if I do
not get
my assignment remarked, and also I will waste another year of my life
repeating this subject.
The feedback I received from the Institute is, and I quote is as follows:
(EP stands for Extension Project) ...
"Your EP received a result of zero. The reason you received no marks
is that
we were specific in our FAQs for this EP and you have breached these
requirements. For example, important fields such as program range
names and
secret IDs had been removed from your submitted Excel EP file, thus
cannot
be marked. Also candidates had been clearly advised not to copy any
formulae
from other worksheets or delete any formulae, field names or
columns/rows in
your workbooks as this would result in a zero result. I would again
refer to
you the FAQs for the EP."
From reading the other threads regarding security, it appears that
whatever
security features that are embedded in Excel are removed once you open
the
file with Calc. Is this correct? If that is the case, how can I prove
this?
Thank you for assistance,
Mabel Li
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