Hello Brian,
Monday, June 16, 2003, 7:45:22 AM, you wrote:
BE> If you had the office document open, which AFAIK you need to do in
BE> order to save it as HTML, then don't you already know the
BE> password? If not, how did you open it and save it as HTML without
BE> knowing the password? That would be a flaw worth noting.
No. There are varying levels of "protection".
1. Tracked Changes - Meaning any changes they make show up in a
different color. They can't turn off the track
changes without the password.
2. Comments - Allows them to add comments, but not change the original
text without the password.
3. Forms - Allows them to only make changes to form fields, radio
buttons, check boxes etc, but not the document text. Also
allows them to modify the original text of unprotected
sections without the password.
All three of these forms of protection can be removed without the
password as easily as the original poster states. This type of
protection has nothing to do with the opening of the document. It only
protects the contents from modification. All it does is to keep your
average Joe from modifying a document.
--
Leif Gregory
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