Suzanne wrote:
>
<<SNIP>>
>
> I had a strange client-related thing happen awhile back. Art director sent
> an attached Word file with copy written by her boss on his PC. When I
> opened the file on my Mac, interspersed among paragraphs of the ad copy
> were strange fragments and snippets of text that looked as if they came
> from her boss's very personal journals or diaries. My client friend and I
> decided that we simply wouldn't mention the problem to her boss.
>
> Suz
>
<<SNIP>>
I have found that as an un-documented "feature" of Word documents. The
document may look fine in Word; however, once you run it through
MacLink, some very strange things are exposed. I have a disucssion with
a very-pro M$ co-worker about the "excellent" security of features of
Word documents. He was surprized and slightly embarressed when I showed
him the vulnerabiltiy of of his protection scheme when I ran his file
through MacLink and was able to extract current data and a large protion
of the data he claimed was deleted.
Along similar lines, the infamous Starr Report has a couple of
versions: one is the Wordperfect format that was delivered to Congress
and the other is the resulting conversion after the original Wordperfect
file was converted to M$ Word. Seems some footnotes were not converted
along with some other minor errors.
--
John Stewart
SUPSHIP San Diego
Information Systems Security Mgr
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