Roger-11 wrote: > > On 02/04/2010 07:52 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: >> Can anyone advise me on the following problem? >> >> I have been sent a .docx which was created in MS Office 2007, and >> encrypted >> with a password that is needed to open it. In the past if anyone sent me >> an >> open .docx file then OpenOffice in F12 would open it without any >> problems. >> However the password protected file appears not to be accessible in >> OpenOffice, and attempting to open the file does not ask for a password >> and >> won't play ball. Since I don't have MS Office 2007 the question is >> whether >> I can open the file at all? >> >> Can anyone suggest a solution? >> >> Thanks >> > Had the same problem a month ago researched and googled for days, the > only solution I found was to request the password. > Roger > > I have seen that support for opening password protected will be included in OO 3.2 which is due for release very soon, and that will resolve this issue - but I am not sure when soon will be! It did look like release was going to go ahead but then I saw at http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99999 there was an additional release blocker a few days ago so I don't know what the current situation is? Anyway I hope that OO 3.2 does get released soon as this is a notty problem for me until OO 3.2 is available. -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.com/OpenOffice-and-password-protected-encrypted-docx-files-tp186668p186699.html Sent from the Fedora Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
