A buddy of mine runs a small lumber business and is forced to use Microsoft Office for one reason and one reason only. He gets a lumber offering list from the biggest mill they buy from in xls format. Excel opened them fine, but OOo doesn't. Apparently the original list at their end is password protected. That protection is removed after putting in the latest offerings. OOo throws a fit and says it cannot open the document because it is password protected. Unfortunately, a little 10-man company can't dictate that a huge corporation like Georgia Pacific change applications. If there's a workaround, we haven't found it yet.
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Re:Why Word?
Posted by: Rob Bochan on May 21, 2005 11:45 PMHe gets a lumber offering list from the biggest mill they buy from in xls format. Excel opened them fine, but OOo doesn't. Apparently the original list at their end is password protected. That protection is removed after putting in the latest offerings. OOo throws a fit and says it cannot open the document because it is password protected. Unfortunately, a little 10-man company can't dictate that a huge corporation like Georgia Pacific change applications.
If there's a workaround, we haven't found it yet.
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