https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=120745
orcmid <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #2 from orcmid <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #1) > Can you please describe how to protect a cell in a writer table using Word. It can be done, but there are two problems: 1. The logic is reversed from what happens in OpenOffice. That is, the document is protected and then protection is *relaxed* for selected parts of the document. 2. The passwords are not interoperable. OpenOffice (and ODF) use has the UTF8 of an entered password in setting the protection. OOXML (and DOCX) use UTF16 of an entered password (and I presume the same for .DOC and .XLS). These are not compatible. It is not possible to convert from one to the other. It would be necessary to ask for the password again as part of saving in the non-default format. (Also, the way OpenOffice implements protection, there can be different passwords on different protections of the same document. The reversed scheme (1, above) has only one password on the protection of a Word document. MORE DETAILS: EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION I tried this using a new document in Microsoft Office Word 2010. Then I did the same in Microsoft Office Word 2003. First I prepared the document with no protections set. On the Developer tab in Word 2010, in the Protect group, click Restrict Editing. In Word 2003, this is on the Tools | Protect Document ... menu dialog. In the protection dialog, I can restrict formatting to use of certain styles. (I didn't do that). I then listed Editing Restrictions. The restriction I set was that No Changes (read only). (Other options allow Comments only, or impose tracked changes or allow only filling in forms.) Next I specified exceptions. How that is done, you select a portion of the document (such as a table cell, row or column or other kind of selection) and then give permission. I gave permission to everyone to edit one cell of a table I had created. (It is also possible to limit the permission to specific users.) - I notice that the places having an exception are shaded in light gray. When done, and I say that protection-enforcement should start, I am asked to enter a password twice. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
