Re: editing protected fiels in a word document/remove password

2009-07-16 Thread lee
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:10:12AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Google "Microsoft Word password". The "don't modify" locking is advisory > only, like PDF locking. Besides, it's from Microsoft. Do you seriously > expect it to work? It made the form useless in that it prevented me from filling

Re: editing protected fiels in a word document/remove password

2009-07-05 Thread Napoleon
John Hasler wrote: The whole purpose of protection is to PREVENT you from doing what you are trying to do. It wouldn't be much protection if this didn't work, would it? Google "Microsoft Word password". The "don't modify" locking is advisory only, like PDF locking. Besides, it's from Microso

Re: editing protected fiels in a word document/remove password

2009-07-05 Thread John Hasler
> The whole purpose of protection is to PREVENT you from doing what you are > trying to do. It wouldn't be much protection if this didn't work, would > it? Google "Microsoft Word password". The "don't modify" locking is advisory only, like PDF locking. Besides, it's from Microsoft. Do you seri

Re: editing protected fiels in a word document/remove password

2009-07-05 Thread Napoleon
lee wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:30:09AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 18:14 -0600, lee wrote: Hi, how do I remove a password or at least edit protected fields in a MS word document that I'm editing with openoffice? I'm trying to fill out a form, but some of the info

Re: editing protected fiels in a word document/remove password

2009-07-05 Thread lee
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:30:09AM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 18:14 -0600, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how do I remove a password or at least edit protected fields in a MS > > word document that I'm editing with openoffice? > > > > I'm trying to fill out a form, but some

Re: editing protected fiels in a word document/remove password

2009-06-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 18:14 -0600, lee wrote: > Hi, > > how do I remove a password or at least edit protected fields in a MS > word document that I'm editing with openoffice? > > I'm trying to fill out a form, but some of the information requested > is not applicable. I need to replace some Yes/N