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Bizarro

Aug 19 2003, 02:21 PM

Your Microsoft Word document can give readers more information about you than you might think. Even Alastair Campbell has fallen foul of the snippets of invisible data few of us realise our documents contain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3154479.stm

Starlyte

Aug 19 2003, 03:02 PM

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The UK government has now largely abandoned Microsoft Word for official documents and has turned to documents created using Adobe Acrobat which uses the Portable Data Format (PDF).

Our company uses Adobe Acrobat for all official documents and forms, but I had know idea why. I'll have to start using Adobe for personal use, too.

Exeter

Aug 19 2003, 05:35 PM

Yikes!

I'm switching to pdf as well.

Thanks for the post, Bizarro.

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