Signing MS-Excel spread sheets

[Peter Pentchev]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Dan Mundy wrote:
> Berend Tober wrote:
> > I hate to admit that I still use MS-Excel rather than an open source
> > spread sheet tool, but workplace requirements constrain my fate...
> > Has anyone else managed a work-around for this flaw? (Aside from the
> > obvious -- "Stop using MS-Excel!" -- because that is a failure I cannot
> > control...)
> 
> use openoffice.org: it is opensource and fully compatible with
> microsoft. now it is a failure you can control. see
> http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html#win for how to
> install it.

Hate to point out the obvious, but unfortunately, it just might be that
Berend canNOT control whether his coworkers also use OpenOffice or MS
Excel, in which case the problem of a coworker opening a signed
spreadsheet and invalidating the signature still stands.

G'luck,
Peter

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