Re: [libreoffice-users] How to view MS Word with Security Classification ?

At 23:06 27/02/2013 -0800, Maxim Sherstobitov wrote:
> When I open the MS Word file it comes up with some SECURITY 
> protection and we can not see it properly.

You seem to think that the word "SECURITY" that you can see relates 
to the security of the word processor document you are handling.  But 
I think not.  Instead, it appears to be part of the text of some sort 
of template or instructions for the person originally preparing the 
document, so that it is laid out according to the corporate style and 
requirements.  This evidently becomes invisible in the final document 
when it is opened in Microsoft Word.  As you say, Writer does not 
display it in the same way.

One workaround is to select the unwanted text - which you will see 
consists of an inserted picture - and simply to delete it.  There 
appear to be other pictures which you may also need to delete.  But 
the document still does not display correctly, and you will need to 
do some reformatting in order to get it back looking how its 
publishers intended.

It is possible to remove such information in Microsoft Word before 
distributing document files to others - and that is probably what the 
document's publishers should have done.  I've tried to do that in 
Word, but the document is protected, so that such changes can no 
longer be made to it: the protection is secured by a password which 
you will not have.  But Writer ignores such protection, so it is 
possible to re-save the document from Writer as .doc but without the 
protection, then open that in Word and remove the hidden 
material.  I'll attempt to do this, but you will almost certainly be 
left with a document that does not appear quite as it should.  You 
may wish to open the original document in the freeware Microsoft Word 
Viewer (if you have a Windows installation to hand) and then edit the 
converted one in Writer to look as similar as necessary.

> The file was created by New Zealand Customs but I am not sure why 
> Libre Writer can not view it properly.

You may want to complain to them that they should have removed the 
extraneous material before publishing the document and in any case 
that it is probably improper for them to require the form's users to 
purchase a specific commercial product (Word) in order to be able to 
use it straightforwardly.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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