OK, I tried it with word, and it no worky. OO pops up and says that it can't open protected documents. Now, it will work if all they've done is protect against changes, but not if they've protected the entire document.
CJK On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:05, Jason Tower wrote: > 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
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