I don't think that a file saved in MS Office format from OOo, password
protected, can be read by MS Office at all. By far the best solution, of
course, is to have the recipients install OOo, or use the portable
version from a CD or a USB drive If they install the Sun ODF plugin, it
will probably work, but if the recipient has the Office 2007 update that
"implements" ODF filetypes, there may be conflicts there; I don't know
if installing the plugin works in that case.
There are two approaches to avoiding a mixture of ODF and MSO filetypes
for the same file. One is to store only the MSO types, probably setting
that as your default (as mentioned in my other post to you). The other
is to store only the ODF types, and use File > Send .> E-mail as
Microsoft Word (or Excel or PowerPoint) to just create a .doc (or .xls
or .ppt) file on the fly, without saving it on your system and
introducing confusion with your saved ODF versions. But I don't think
that allows for password protection of the sent file, and if it did the
recipient probably couldn't read it, anyway.
Other than that, it looks as if you'd have to use MS Office yourself for
these shared files, to keep full password protection both ways. Hope it
doesn't turn out that way!
Marion Chaix wrote:
Thank you for your response. So does that mean that to keep password
protected files I would need to "Save as" in Microsoft? Doing this creates a
duplicate Open Office file which I do not want.
I would be grateful if you could confirm whether changing the files to Open
Office will not allow me to open the files in Microsoft later on.
Thank you
Regards
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2009/6/18 Paul <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Marion Chaix <[email protected]> wrote:
Please could you advise on whether it is possible to save my Microsoft
files
(with passwords) to Open Office files, and which can be compatible and
open
in Microsoft later on. At the moment the files seem to duplicate as Open
Office files even though I would like to keep only the one file
(compatible
in both Microsoft & Open Office). If changing the files to Open Office
does
not allow me to open the files in Microsoft later on, please let me know.
Please advise, thank you.
Regards
Correct you can't save a MS file with a password using OOo. The reverse is
true however (ie, you can open a MS password protected file using OOo).
I thought that MS was preparing a converter for ODF files (however I'm
probably a little rusty on this subject).
/paul
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