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Balaji Neelakantan

Hi,

I have a password protected spread sheet created with ms-excel and I am
not able to open it with Open Office. Any ideas?.

Balaji
 
That excel sheet was created by my manager and sent to me via E-mail.FYI, it
has the password for write only. No password set for Read Permission.

Thanks,
Balaji.
 
Did any of you people READ what he was asking before making suggestions?
He has OpenOffice and can't open an Excel spreadsheet where a password
is set on read permission. OOo can't seem to distinguish between a read
password and a full access password. Why would he be posting if he had
Excel? He could have opened it. How can he paste it into a new
spreadsheet when he can't open it?

My recommendation is that you go can try the excel viewer at
office.Microsoft.com/downloads/2000/xlviewer.aspx

If it will copy from there to a new spread sheet, you're in business.
If not, your boss is going to have to remove the password completely.

Either way, a search of http://www.oooforum.org/forum/ might yield more
about what to do.

John H.
 
Did any of you people READ what he was asking before making suggestions?
He has OpenOffice and can't open an Excel spreadsheet where a password
is set on read permission. OOo can't seem to distinguish between a read
password and a full access password. Why would he be posting if he had
Excel? He could have opened it. How can he paste it into a new
spreadsheet when he can't open it?
---snip---

Ahem:
Click to expand...

Actually, it seems OOo can't distinguish between a read-only password and a
full password. But you're right, he still can't open it. Which makes the
rest of us knuckleheads, I guess.

--Mike
 
Mike:

Didn't mean to snap off heads. It's just that it pushed a hot button
for me. Tech-heads get a rep for suggesting solutions that don't solve
anything, I know, I do helpdesk with a bunch of them. I guess I had
had-it-up-to-here with that the day I wrote this.

More to the point. I did a little digging into this on OOForum and
discovered that this is not a bug so much as MS technology that can't be
translated: 1: MSoffice uses proprietary security for document passwords
and encryption. 2: Federal law makes it a crime to reverse- engineer
encryption schemes (I did not know that!). Result - OpenOffice.org
developers are prevented from reverse- engineering Microsoft's password
protection, based on that law. Conclusion - OpenOffice.org users must
resort to either the Microsoft Word Viewer, or having the sender remove
all password protection from the document.

I don't know if you'd call this a "bug" or not, but it is one that isn't
going to be fixed any time soon.

John Hood E-mail: (e-mail address removed)
Website: John's Best of Free Software:
http://home.wi.rr.com/johnhood/freeware/
 
Mike:

Didn't mean to snap off heads. It's just that it pushed a hot button
for me. Tech-heads get a rep for suggesting solutions that don't solve
anything, I know, I do helpdesk with a bunch of them. I guess I had
had-it-up-to-here with that the day I wrote this.

More to the point. I did a little digging into this on OOForum and
discovered that this is not a bug so much as MS technology that can't be
translated: 1: MSoffice uses proprietary security for document passwords
and encryption. 2: Federal law makes it a crime to reverse- engineer
encryption schemes (I did not know that!). Result - OpenOffice.org
developers are prevented from reverse- engineering Microsoft's password
protection, based on that law. Conclusion - OpenOffice.org users must
resort to either the Microsoft Word Viewer, or having the sender remove
all password protection from the document.

I don't know if you'd call this a "bug" or not, but it is one that isn't
going to be fixed any time soon.
Click to expand...

Fortunately the DMCA and similar "Federal Law" is irrelevant outside the
USA.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Excel++password++crack
http://www.elcomsoft.com/ (not freeware)

Regards
Gordon
 
Mike:

Didn't mean to snap off heads.
Click to expand...

Mine's still attached, but thanks for your concern. No harm, no foul, I
say.

---snip---
Conclusion -
OpenOffice.org users must resort to either the Microsoft Word Viewer,
or having the sender remove all password protection from the document.

I don't know if you'd call this a "bug" or not, but it is one that
isn't going to be fixed any time soon.
Click to expand...

It's not a bug it's a *feature*, at least in Microshite World.

--Mike
 
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