Re: [users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-14 Thread JOE Conner
jonathon wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 15:43, Harold Fuchs wrote: <> The Mayor of San Francisco would disagree with you. <> That explains volumes. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-14 Thread jonathon
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 16:10, Harold Fuchs wrote: > And why exactly is this "a major issue"? Corporate usage. Retrieving the data that an ex-employee created, and encrypted as part of their duties. xan jonathon - To unsubscr

Re: [users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-13 Thread JOE Conner
Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:10:48 +0100 Came this utterance fomulated by Harold Fuchs to my mailbox: <> One last alternative, this depends on why the file was password protected in the first instance. OP could export the original file as a PDF instead. This doesn't protect the dat

Re: [users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:10:48 +0100 Came this utterance fomulated by Harold Fuchs to my mailbox: > On 13/09/2008 19:47, jonathon wrote: > > > > One of the major issues with the password scheme that OOo uses, is > > that if one forgets the password, it probably will be cheaper and > > faster to re

Re: [users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2008/9/13 Marc BOOSZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > With the 2.4.1 version of Open Office, it is not possible to save > spreadsheets with a password; > This is an important disadvantage of Open Office in comparison to Microsoft > Excel. > I hope that version 3.0 of Open Office will correct this p

Re: [users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-13 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 13/09/2008 19:47, jonathon wrote: One of the major issues with the password scheme that OOo uses, is that if one forgets the password, it probably will be cheaper and faster to recreate the document from scratch, than pay to have the password recovered. (Basically, if OOo Pasword Cracker htt

Re: [users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-13 Thread jonathon
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 03:57, Marc BOOSZ wrote: > With the 2.4.1 version of Open Office, it is not possible to save > spreadsheets with a password; OOo can save spreadsheets with a password. However, it only does so when they are saved in ODF format. (If you want to be picky, add OOo 1.x file

Re: [users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-13 Thread Rob Clement
Marc BOOSZ wrote: Hello, With the 2.4.1 version of Open Office, it is not possible to save spreadsheets with a password; This is an important disadvantage of Open Office in comparison to Microsoft Excel. I hope that version 3.0 of Open Office will correct this problem and enable to save sprea

[users] Impossible to save spreadsheets with a password. Obstacle to confidentiality.

2008-09-13 Thread Marc BOOSZ
Hello, With the 2.4.1 version of Open Office, it is not possible to save spreadsheets with a password; This is an important disadvantage of Open Office in comparison to Microsoft Excel. I hope that version 3.0 of Open Office will correct this problem and enable to save spreadsheets with a passw