Issue 9955 - Excel password protected file
Summary: Excel password protected file
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 402
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.1
Hardware: PC Windows 98
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: oc
QA Contact: issues@sc
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Reported: 2002-12-09 14:20 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:55 UTC (History)
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Description Unknown 2002-12-09 14:20:21 UTC 
I got from one of my coleagues who uses Ms Excel a file which has some cells password protected. The 
spreadsheet application reports me that the file cannot be oppened. The message is as follows: 
'Error loading document file:///C:/...: Read-Error. The file is password-protected.'
I know 
that password protected files cannot be oppened in Calc but, I don't want to modify those cells. It 
is not possible to open that file as Ms Excel does without asking for a password?
Thank you for 
your time.
Cristian Samoila (ristossi@yahoo.co.uk)

P.S. If it's necesary I can provide 
the file.
Comment 1 frank 2002-12-09 14:32:24 UTC 
Hi Christian,

as you stated the file has some cells protected by password. This
leads the whole document to be encrypted, at least in parts. So we
cannot open the document to display all of the content properly. 

Also the encryption routine is a secret of Microsoft and they won't
provide us with it.

So I set this one as double to Issue 402 and close it.

Sorry for no better reply.

Frank

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 402 ***
Comment 2 frank 2002-12-09 14:34:55 UTC 
closed as impossible to fix and duplicate
Comment 3 daniel.rentz 2002-12-09 15:56:37 UTC 
The error box is misleading, the file is encrypted, not password
protected.