Hello Jan,
Jan van Aar wrote:
I think this is strange!
I made a spreadsheet in CALC (Ooo2.0.0beta2), protected the cells,
protected the sheet and the document with a password an saved it as an
Ooo document. I closed it, opened it again, saved is as a MS Excel
97/200 document, closed it and opened the Excel document again in Ooo
and in this document I could simply remove the protection without password!
Is this normal?
I think it is.
The 'protection' of Excel-files is quite different from that provided
for OpenOffice.org files. Excel does not support that kind of
protection. So the properties are not be saved in the Excel-file.
The document with specifications
http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/interoperability/Import_Password_Protected_MS_Office_Files.sxw
indeed reads :
" 6.2.2 Saving an Encrypted Document in MS Office Format
The export of a password protected document in MS Office format is not
supported in OO.org 2.0. Therefore we have to inform user, that the
document cannot be encrypted when saving in a MS Office format and thus
the password protection of his data gets lost on saving the document.
When an imported and previously password protected MS Office document
file gets saved in the MS Office format, the following dialog appears:
.... "
This is about saving an existing Excel document, so one could expect a
warning as well in the situation you described.
How can I prevent this?
Not at this moment.
You might wan't to raise an issue for it
http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html
so that you and others can vote for it.
However, no illusions about the password-protection in MsOffice ;-)
Hope this helps &
kind regards,
Cor
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