RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: stubborn macro security

From what Andreas says, it appears that the flag you care about is in settings.xml within the 
Zipped .odt package.

It is generally benign to simply delete the settings.xml file.  Try it on a copy to see if it 
accomplishes what you want.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Girvin R. Herr [mailto:girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 14:45
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: stubborn macro security

Andreas,

Andreas Säger wrote:
> Where is the macro stored? Obviously you store it in the template and 
> all resulting documents from that template inherit the macro.
> When you store a new document from that template in some untrusted 
> location, the macro can not be trusted anymore.
I assume the macro is stored in the particular document I wanted to 
change.  I used the process in the 3.4 Writer Guide, "Updating a 
Document From a Changed Template" attempting to change that document's 
template update flag.  In this document and some others, in the past I 
must have clicked on "Keep Old Styles" in the popup and according to the 
Writer Guide, that sets a flag to never allow template updates again for 
the document.  Apparently, the only way to re-enable it is to run this 
BASIC Macro to set the "oDocSettings.UpdateFromTemplate" flag to 
"True".  It is supposed to cancel the "Keep Old Styles" selection.  The 
macro function is called "FixDocV3" if that helps.

I just realized that this is a *BASIC* macro, not the usual keystroke 
type macro.  That difference may have confused you and other users when 
reading my message.  Does a BASIC macro have a different security option 
somewhere?

Not knowing what the file format is, is it possible to unzip the 
document and search for "UpdateFromTemplate" and edit it to "True", as 
an alternate to the BASIC macro?
If "UpdateFromTemplate" is hard-coded into the document rather than the 
symbolic name, I would need to know where it is in the document to 
change it, which I don't know.
Thanks.
Girvin


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