On Wednesday March 21 2007 1:39 pm, Antigone Klima wrote:
> Hello, and thank you in advance for your assistance.
>
> I'm moving a small US-based non-profit office serving
> the healthcare industry from Microsoft to open source
> solutions. So far OpenOffice is a big part of it, and
> the users are pleased!
>
> In order to comply with HIPAA regulations, we need to
> encrypt all documents containing personally
> identifiable information. One easy way is to create
> the document, then use the File|Export to PDF feature
> in OO, and assign a password, which is then attached
> to a plain text, non-descript eMail.
>
> To make it super-easy for the users, I thought I'd
> create a macro for the saving to a central location
> and encrypting the PDF bits.
>
> And that's when the trouble started...
>
> I cannot get the macro to record any of the steps past
> opening the Export to PDF dialog box. I've tried using
> the mouse as well as keystrokes-only. In both cases,
> the dialog box comes up, and that's as far as we get.
>
> I'm hoping someone's already written something like
> this that I could borrow and finesse for our use. If
> so, please oh please oh please share the code.
>
> Or, if someone's found a way around this and I can
> simply record the macro, please let me know the
> correct procedure.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Antigone
> IT Support
> osotc.org
Are you aware that text documents and spreadsheets can be
encrypted within OpenOffice.org? This is done when you password
protect the document. There is one warning about this though. If you
forget the password, you will probably not be able to access the data
in the document or spreadsheet.
As long as the person receiving the emailed document has OOo and
the correct password, he or she should have no problems opening the
document. This, of course, assumes you will be using a quality
password that is hard to crack.
Dan
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