Re: Inserted/Deleted/revised text"
- From: "SLADE SELLERS" <sladesell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 00:51:38 -0600
Wow! Are you available to sue Apple since itunes doesn't work? lol...
Sorry, have no idea what you guys are talking about but, it sounds
awesome... Good luck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Marquette" <emarquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 12:28 AM
Subject: Inserted/Deleted/revised text"
>
> Let me just add a little to what Chip has already mentioned.
> In converting a Word document to a WordPerfect document, you discovered
> two things: (1) a flaw in MS Word's "accept changes" function and (2)
> possibly a sloppy or ill-informed attorney.
> I am an attorney, and I specialize in technology law, intellectual
> property, and information security.
> First, when the other attorney made changes, it is almost certainly true
> that she was using track changes. One may turn this on or off inside MS
> Word with control plus shift plus "E". She may have assumed you were
> using Word and left the changes on so you could see them (nothing wrong
> with that), or she may have been sending a document that had gone through
> internal changes with some departments wanting to "give" more than others
> on the document (or contract provisions). She, the attorney, may have
> given the document the final touches, accepted the changes, and sent the
> "final" document.
> What you saw when you converted to WordPerfect has nothing to do with
> JAWS. WordPerfect was either converting and displaying her deliberately
> displayed changes, or WordPerfect was showing the Word metadata.
> "Metadata" is data about the data, and this stays with a Word document
> even after changes are accepted. That is why most attorneys will not use
> this feature to show changes. Instead, they use a third party tool such
> as DeltaView.
> How do you get rid of the metadata? Well, if the other attorney did not
> want you to see the changes, you may have gained an advantage in the
> negotiations. I will not comment on the ethics of using that advantage.
> I think the stand-up proper thing to do is to notify the attorney and warn
> her that she may want to use a so-called metadata scrubber.
> If you want to scrub the metadata yourself, some good scrubbers are free
> on the internet. Just go to Google and search for metadata scrubber.
> That will give you a clean document that WordPerfect, in the conversion,
> will not convert into what is, in effect, a legal blackline.
> Inadvertently disclosing internal strategic discussions through metadata
> could be a breach of the attorney/client privilege. That's why our
> standard desktop prompts the user (before saving or printing) that the
> document contains track changes and why we have a menu option (as an
> add-in) for scrubbing metadata.
> What Chip says about working in Word is accurate. Track changes can be a
> wonderful feature, particularly for documents being bounced back and forth
> where seeing changes is desirable (though we still prefer a document
> comparison tool, which Word itself offers as an option under the Tools
> menu). In Word, use JAWS's verbosity to cycle through a number of levels
> of chatter as far as track changes are concerned. You can even have JAWS
> jump to the next change in the document.
> Hope this helps.
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