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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:59:58 +0100 (BST) John Palmer wrote: > Having read the newspaper reports of the Home Secretary's doubts about his > anti-terrorist bill, as revealed by erasures in his letters to opposition > counterparts, I'm not clear if these represent in any sense an insecurity > in the software he uses. Does anyone have any information about this ? > > The incident reminded me of the well-known fact that MS-Word .doc files > may contain hidden passages of text that the author thinks he has deleted > from the final version. It doesn't seem to be quite that, though. I don't know the ins and outs of the document format (*does anyone?*), but "officially" (well, according to the MSOffice course specifications) the only time a MSWord document should contain deleted passages is if the author has saved previous versions of the file (using the File->Versions menu option) or has enabled "Track Changes". Just going by what you've written, it sounds more like T/C than Versions. Grant. -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html