If you have Excel files that are encrypted with a password, those files cannot be opened by current OpenOffice.org releases under any conditions.
If you have Excel files with protected fields or have a fully-protected (read-only) document, it is true that those Excel files are no longer protected when opened in current OpenOffice.org versions. (Some protections of Word documents are honored in some releases.) If this is of critical importance to you, please consider requesting an improvement in the issue tracking (Bugzilla) systems of the Apache OpenOffice project and/or The Document Foundation LibreOffice project, where future versions of OpenOffice-lineage software is being developed. <http://www.openoffice.org/qa/issue_handling/pre_submission.html> <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport> - Dennis ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: DO NOT ASSUME TOO MUCH The use of a password to lock the protection of fields or make read-only documents is not a security provision in OpenOffice.org ODF Spreadsheet files (.ods) nor in Excel OOXML (.xslx) and binary (.xsl) files. It is a safeguard against accidental alteration of fields that should not change for the spreadsheet to work properly. Experts can remove, alter, and restore the protection of such fields without knowing the password. Also, the passwords used are not particularly safe from discovery. If you have protected fields of documents in Excel or in OpenOffice, please do not use those passwords for more-important purposes. -----Original Message----- From: Neeraj Kumar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 21:56 To: [email protected] Cc: 'Prashant.Madollapa' Subject: [users] Reg: Help Dear Sir/Madam I am looking of your Kind guidance In terms of using the Free Open office. I have some query regarding to opening the Ms Office Password protected files into Open office. When I am opening any Password protected Ms Office Excel files into Open office then we can unprotect it with out asking Password. So in this case we loose the purpose of security. Is we had any kind of method, in which any password protected files of ms office which we are using into Open office, it should ask the password. Without password it should not allowed to editing the files. As well as after opening the file into open Office when we are using this file into Ms Office then it will become unprotected while it should ask password. I am Looking of your kind response and help as usual. Regards Neeraj Kumar -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
