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Password Protected Worksheets
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Zora
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Password Protected Worksheets
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A quick little complaint (suggestion) here...
I just downloaded some Thanksgiving activities and found that the documents are not editable!! It asks me for a password to edit the worksheet! I have never come across this before and I �d like to say that doing something like that is not fair - at least in my mind...
Now, I can �t use the ws because I can�t edit them!!!! And most likely, I will not download ever again from these users... Sorry, I like ws I can edit or use only parts of in my class - so please, please, pretty please do not password protect your work!!
Linda
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24 Nov 2010
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Zora
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I don�t have time to be copying and pasting... at least tonight I didn�t. I spent over ten minutes (I run to get things as I need them) trying to modify the page and at first, I got a "read-only" message, then I closed it and checked properties, reopened, tried again and found out it was password protected!!!
Sorry, I find things like that annoying... I wasted my students time and mine fiddling with a ws that in the end, I ended up not using. 
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24 Nov 2010
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baiba
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What an embarrassing and unfriendly thing to do! What for, I wonder...?
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24 Nov 2010
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moravc
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The uploader might have set the automatic password protection to all documents created in his computer...
Maybe the password protection is a sort of a command done by the computer automatically and the uploader didn �t do that intentionally...
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24 Nov 2010
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s.lefevre
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It would be interesting to tell us which worksheet it is, so we can see if this happens to everybody. I have never seen such a thing before. perhaps the member doesn �t even knoe this is happening. |
24 Nov 2010
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Jayho
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Hi Zora
If it is a read-only document you should be able to save as into a new document and then modify the new document to your hearts content.
Cheers
Jayho |
24 Nov 2010
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Olindalima ( F )
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Hi Linda
No words, really disguting.
Anyway, may be this member usually works this way, with pssword docs, and, may be, he/she has just followed a routine, I mean, without no intention of uploadind a password doc.
May be, don �t know, not sure if you are in the mood and, more over, if you have the time - pm him/her and try to clarify.
If, hope not, but, if the intention was to publish a password blocked doc, well, ....... this raises tons of problems here.
First - lack of education ? yes, probably, but, we don �t have any clue, may be a just a member with lack of info.
Second - wow, this one is difficult for me.
let �s us thinkl - what, in the end, is the difference between a password doc and a jpeg printable ?
Well, there is no difference, at first, but I can spy a BIG one.
I have quite, a few, some printables in jpeg format, cause, at the time, I was not able to reduce the size. But, I never, ever, have uploaded a printable password blocked. If it is a word doc, you can manipulate it, if I can �t deal with the maximum size, so sorry, you get a .jpeg. I usually leave in the comments the possibility of asking me for the word doc, via pm.
Anyway, this is very , very sad, but, anyway, again, may be, just may be, this member has done this in a severe case of lack of attention ( LOL ) , but I speak seriously. It can happen.
Very embarrasing, hope Victor sees this and comes up with some new rules.... ( Gosh, did I ask for more rules ? LINDA, go to bed - you need to rest )
LInda, my dear Linda, let me write here that we are both Linda, otherwise people won �t understand a needle - people, there are two Linda(s) - Linda and me or, if you prefer, Me and Linda .
Linda, very sad, I know you are in a pool of extra work, plenty of reason, you are right, that �s not fair, but, let �s give a chance to that member to explain / apologize; - if not, we can cross that guy out, ............................ can �t we ?
Linda, dear, tons of hugs from the OTHER linda
( I know I haven �t answered you, can �t guess the silly life I �m living, as politicians here usually say, and it seems, this is my SILLY SEASON.
hugs, big kiss
Linda
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25 Nov 2010
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ueslteacher
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Well, just may be, some people prefer their work to stay theirs and want to protect it from stealing? There are so many printables here that can be and are allowed by their authors to be adapted, why the hassel anyway? Sophia |
25 Nov 2010
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manonski (f)
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Sophia, if people can �t accept that their work might be adapted, the least they could do is let people know. I �m not interested in downloading something that is not editable. |
25 Nov 2010
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