Hi Jan,
Jan van Aar wrote:
It is quite easy to remove the password protection in MsOffice, but you
need some external software for it, a wealth of which can be found on
internet. I read about the very good password protection of Ooo.
[...]
But.... the password protection is even easier to remove than in Excel.
You simply save the *Ooo spreadsheet in Ooo* as an Excel spreadsheet and
you are done! I think this is very stupid! It makes the excellent
password protection useless.
Oeps. This indeed looks like unintended behaveour.
Only two way's to prevent this:
- password on the whole file. However, this makes it impossible for
others to use your file at all.
- others should have OOo. However, than you can't send your file to
Excel-users.
[...]
They have right-thinking created a bug out of politeness.
I have been looking for a macro to disable the Save As function for
other formats than the Ooo standard, but I think that is not adequate
because users can switch off that macro on opening the spreadsheet.
That's correct.
However, you might think of put a necessary function to use the
spreadsheet, in the library that holds the save-as functionality.
The library can be passwordprotected.
Nevertheless: people still wil have to download OOo. Which will be a
pleasure for them anyway ;-) but still.
So I think I will have to raise an issue, hoping they will fix this bug
and hoping I can use Ooo2.0 for my spreadsheets. Look at www.bonamens.nl
if you want to know what I am doing.
Pls. inform us about the number of the issue.
I think a good, and not so complicated, solution would be, to ask for
the password on a save-as action. Has to be done in the core code.
Thanks for your imput!
Greetings,
Cor
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