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dreuby
02-12-2004, 11:02 AM
I thought this was important enough to post to all the VA lists that I belong to!

From the Support Alert Newsletter:
Remove Hidden Data from Office Documents

Microsoft Word, Excel
and PowerPoint all retain recent changes to documents even
though these changes are no longer visible. Unfortunately, this
information can be easily recovered with a simple text editor.
This presents a real security threat and potential legal
problems as well. Microsoft has released a free Office XP/2003
add-in that removes this hidden information. This is an
essential download for all Office XP/2003 users. Free, 280KB
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&displaylang=en

Lori
02-13-2004, 05:30 PM
Wow -- Thanks for sharing that Dianne.

That was really quite an oversight wasn't it?

Lori

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