LibreOffice is one of the most important alternatives to Microsoft Office that we can use today. It is a powerful open source productivity suite so we won’t have to spend a single euro to get the most out of it.
It is made up of several programs that help us to cover the most common sectors in this type of use. We have a text editor, a spreadsheet program, another to generate our own multimedia presentations, work with mathematical functions, etc. In addition, the price that we are commenting on, which is zero, a huge surprise with the ease of file formats that it has with Microsoft’s proposal.
At the same time, it is also worth highlighting the enormous functionality that it offers us, thus covering the needs of the majority of users. In fact, it is increasingly used in businesses and homes, as it adapts to all types of environments. Its developers, fully aware of all this, do not stop improving their project based on updates that they release periodically. But here not only functionality or a beautiful user interface counts, as well as compatibility, but at the same time we demand a series of security measures .
That is why we are going to talk about some of the suite’s built-in functions below that will allow us to fully protect the documents we create here.
Use a password for each document
We already told you before that this is an office suite made up of a multitude of independent programs. However, all the documents that we create here, regardless of the application used, have a very important security function. We refer to the possibility of establishing an access password for each of the projects that we create here.
In fact, it should be noted that practically all the current solutions that make up LibreOffice have the same behavior in this regard. Therefore, setting an access password for the documents generated will always be the same and restrict access to them. To achieve this, we just have to go to the Save as option on the File menu. In the window that appears we find a box that indicates us. We can even encrypt the data that make up this specific file from the Encrypt with GPG key option.
Personality the level of security of macros
As in practically all office solutions, one of the main access routes for malicious code is through macros. These are actions that are already predetermined and that attackers use to introduce their malware onto our computers. That is why many suites of this type allow us to configure security levels established for said macros . And this case was not going to be less, as we are going to show you.
The first thing we do is open the LibreOffice control center and then go to the Tools / Options menu. In the left panel we will see a section called Security in which we click to see the available options. If we access the Macro Security button, we will be able to establish the security level for these elements from among the four available.
Set protection alerts and advisories
In the same way, and from the same window mentioned above, we have the possibility to customize and establish various alerts related to this same topic. This way we can be informed about the changes and actions that are carried out with our projects created in LibreOffice. to give us an idea we will have the possibility of receiving notifications if these documents are printed, modified, sent, a PDF is created, etc.
In addition, we can instruct the application to delete personal information when saving a certain file or even to show a recommendation message to use a password like the one we saw above.
