Fwd: Witango-Talk: [Waaay OT] how deleted are columns in an excel spreadsheet?

[David Mark Weiss]

Roland, My oldest son works at MacBU. (davidweiss.blogspot.com,)  Here is the blog dedicated to MacBU http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/ He is the automation lead for MacBU. So he may not know, but he knows the team and he know many in the windows side as well.  Perhaps we can relieve you of your heartburn.  Mark Begin forwarded message: From: Roland Dumas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: November 3, 2006 9:50:45 AM PST To: WiTango List List <witango-talk@witango.com> Subject: Witango-Talk: [Waaay OT] how deleted are columns in an excel spreadsheet? Reply-To: witango-talk@witango.com Apologies for this being so far off topic. I need a sense for how to get a definitive and honest answer: Background:  I have had MS Word and MS Powerpoint files carry deleted content long after the changes were made, accepted, etc. In fact, I've been burned a few times and have a standard of exporting MS Word to rtf and reimporting it if I want to absolutely make sure that deleted is deleted. I have a case in which there is a spreadsheet that has a couple of columns of very private information. The office practice is to delete these columns before distributing the spreadsheets. With my experience with MS Word and PPT, I had a case of heartburn, thinking that the content of those deleted columns might somehow be recoverable. My question: is Excel as sloppy and insecure as Word and PPT? Is there an authoritative source to get the question answered? ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf Mark Weiss http://trustthechildren.blogspot.com ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf