Re: Data hidden in Word documents

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My quick test with MS Word running on Win2K:

1) Create new document.
2) Type random text.
3) Save document.
4) Delete some portion of text.
5) Save again.
6) Close document.
7) Open document.
8) Hit CTRL-Z (Undo).

No change. Deleted text not restored.

Can you explain under what circumstances UNDO would be available?  

John


In a message dated 8/26/2003 11:02:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Ansgar Wiechers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>On 2003-08-25 Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> > Undo does not work across closing and re-opening a document, so I
>> > would not expect undo-information to be enclosed in the document.
>> 
>> Yes it does. There have been many news stories broken when a reporter
>> gets a word doc PR release, hits undo and finds out some nugget of
>> info. I have received word docs, hit undo and found interesting things
>> (just check theregister.co.uk).
>
>Huh? I've never seen "Undo" being available when opening a document in
>any version of Word I had my hands on. Under what circumstances did that
>happen (sorry, I seem to fail finding the article you are referring to)?
>
>I'm pretty much aware of the fact that Word *does* store this
>information, but I fail to see how the existence of an "Undo" feature
>(which is limited to the current session according to all of my
>observations) would be any kind of excuse for it.
>
>Regards
>Ansgar Wiechers
>
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