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Subject:RE: Fun with Word From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:07:26 -0600
Dan Goldstein wrote:
> It could be in unused headers and footers - i.e., the document has
them
> for a previously defined "different-first-page" or
> "different-odd-and-even" layout. This has happened to me before. I
found
> them by clearing and selecting these check boxes in turn, and *then*
> searching the headers and footers.
Another possibility: Paul, you don't by chance have Fast Saves turned
on, do you? Turn it off! It's evil!
(It also seems to be gone from Word 2007, which I got recently. At
least, they've hidden it where I can't find it.)
With Fast Saves turned on, when you make edits, Word appends the changes
to the end of the file, but doesn't rewrite the whole file. This saves
some milliseconds per save, but at the cost of increasing the file size,
making it more unstable and subject to corruption, and leaving that
sensitive info you deleted still there, ready to cause mischief when the
doc is subpoenaed.
It's evil, I tell you!
Richard
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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