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Grant Sewell wrote: >>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. >>From my experience with word, if you do not change the file name all your undo changes are preserved. I am not sure how far the undo changes go back but i believe it is a *very* long way. I have seen a 20Mb word document suddenly drop to 10Mb when the filename was changed (as this clears the undo buffer? or what ever storing a *lot* of information in the file). But any body who has used word for anything serious would have lernt (the hard way) to rotate filenames and use manual saves often anyway and therefor this *undo* buffer issue is minimised. Robin
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