On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 16:05 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > >> ... I really wish the MS Word export with password protection was there! > >> I was hoping to convert my organization over to OOo, but they are used > >> to using MS Word passwords to "protect" sensitive documents. Not that > >> the protection is any good, but that's what OOo would have to > >> interoperate with in order to get management approval. > > > Well i think you have answered your own question, move to a more secure > > encryption system and implement Open Office while at same time leaving > > the MS Word in place just as a legacy app for reading old docs. > > Oh, come on!! > > His request is perfectly reasonable. I too am happy to see OOo able to > open MS password protected files. How [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard would it be to > add > support for their lame password in the 'Saved As' version of a .doc file > too? Sometimes it seems to me that (some of) the OOo devs go out of > their way to be difficult, just to make some kind of political 'point' > similar to the one you tried to make above. >
Perhaps you could contribute this feature to the codebase. I would thank you and so would thousands of others. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
