i can't speak for word, but a client recently sent me a XLS file that had passwd-protected cells/columns (they had forgotten the passwd and wanted to know if i could "fix" it). OO calc had no trouble with it, saved it as a new file and all was right with the world. i did have to do a "unprotect sheet" or something like that first, only took a second.
jason > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 16:39, Dan wrote: >> --On Friday, March 26, 2004 04:07:41 PM -0500 Jason Tower >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > yeah, it's called openoffice :) >> >> 'splain please... will OpenOffice read in the password protected files? >> I've not played with OO because, like Office, it seems to be way bloated >> to >> me. > > OpenOffice will not read password protected word documents at all. > Do give it a try for your general office needs, though, it feels a lot > less bloated in recent versions, like the one included in Fedora Core 1 > or Mandrake 10. > > AbiWord will open some types of password-protected Word docs... but it > will prompt for the password. It needs this to decrypt. > > I believe John Beimler has experience with this; if he doesn't see this > thread, you may want to ask him on IRC (nick jbeimler). > > --Jeremy > > -- > /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ > | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | > | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | > \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
