[pchelpers] RTF - safe and polite
- From: "Ekhart GEORGI (last name last)" <Ekhart.GEORGI@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:04:47 +0300
Hi Tonia
Yes, here's another example that's become quite famous and that you
perhaps have heard about:
www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm
> With PDF you can disable copy, paste, edit etc. But with Word it's a
> different story. With Word document you can view heaps of hidden info
> which could be pretty embarrassing. As an example, go to
> http://hsc.house.gov/files/testimony%20gingrich.doc to download
> Gringrich's speach, open it in you Word, then click on
> File-->properties-->custom tab and view the info. Now close this
> document, go to File-->Open and in the File of Type box just below
> the "File name" box, scroll down to 'Recover Text of Any File (*.*)'.
> Now scroll down the document and view the "history" of this
> document...embarrassing? interesting!!
Lost you here. When i follow your directions, the document looks the
same as before; where is the document's "history"?
> Still want to post a doc file on the Web? But if you have Office
> 2003, you can go to Microsoft website to download the hidden data
> removal too.
For older versions of Word, the solution is to save all documents in RTF
because this doesn't save any hidden info. This would actually be a good
solution in all versions. RTF documents can't spread macro viruses, and
all word processors can open RTF. So RTF would be more safe and more
polite than sending a Word file in Microsoft's proprietary .doc format
to someone else who would feel obliged to buy Word.
Ekhart
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