[Solved] Accessing password-protected MS Word doc via Apache

[Kophi]

Hi, there!

I just downloaded Apache OpenOffice today, and was wondering if it is at all possible to access an MS Office 2013 document I have that is password-protected. When I try to open it, I get a popup window titled "Filter Selection" with a long list of file types to choose from.

Thanks in advance.

[Kophi]

By way of update, I've found a workaround, so it's all
good!


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[Villeroy]

What did you update if you just downloaded Apache OpenOffice today?

[Kophi]

What did you update if you just downloaded Apache OpenOffice today?

I downloaded it yesterday, actually.

“By way of update” was in regards to the status of the aforementioned
technical difficulty.

Long story short, I no longer had access to MS Word, where a password-
protected document was based. Since I couldn't get Apache to open the
password-protected document, I simply enrolled in Microsoft's 30-day
free-trial of Office 365, accessed the document's contents through that,
and copy-pasted those contents into an Apache document.

[Villeroy]

So you updated the Microsoft product.
https://libreoffice.org/ can handle encrypted MS Office files.

[John_Ha]

AOO can handle some, but not all, of the variants of encryption MS Word uses. See [Tutorial] Differences between Writer and MS Word files.

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[Kophi]

So you updated the Microsoft product.

No.

I took the contents from a Microsoft document and moved them to
an Apache one.

[Kophi]

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Will do; thanks!