Dan Lewis wrote: > 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. > >
Also, if they're emailing confidential information, they should consider encrypting the email. Free X.509 certificates, which can be used with most email apps, are available from: http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/personal-email-certificates/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
