On 7/18/06, Craig Brooksby <rcbrxb@gmail.com> wrote:

First off, let me say "amen"  [...]  about Linux users

generally being kind and helpful to newbies.  PLUG is an outstanding
example of that.  :-)

OK:  I remember someone out there being involved in computer
forensics.  I have to train a bunch of office people on the risks
inherent in sending out Word, Excel, and other MS-Office docs, which
contain metadata (deleted words and values, etc.),  The recipient,
with a little work, can find out what the price was before you made
that final change, or who the customer was before you searched and
replaced with their name.

If anyone out there can share, and if it's not too OT, please give me
tips on open-source tools one can use to explore / remove metadata
from docs.  And yes, I prefer the OO suite, but these are lawers and
law offices, and Word reigns supreme there (and WordPerfect!).

I'm Googling, and doing what I can, but I'm looking for the voice of
experience, if it is out there.

Thanks --

Craig
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I did a little bit of checking in to the features of MS-Word, for saving

a .doc file in html format [...]

It turns out that, their "default" way of creating an html file, is a file

that has a lot of extra stuff in it [...]

   On the other hand, if one wants [...]

plain vanilla ASCII text, then [...]

"html without annotations"

format, [...]  I am not sure if saving in that

format, [...]

would get rid of all of the "security risk" info about

non-latest versions -- but I think it would. [...]
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Mike Schwartz    
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