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Avoid sending deleted text along with your docs

is it all it's all it's suppost to ber and will it clash with our systems.and one more thing what can it do to improve my system
i have everything a person wants for his or her system ihave 100 giges,100drders of back up filesplus more please help

Another option is to do a "Save As" instead of just a "Save". The "Save As" assumes that you are creating a new document, and removes all of the excess text, even if you use the same name.

Is there a similar problem with wordperfect??

While doing similar research for myself, I ran across the following article regarding metadata.

Hope this helps.

Payne Consulting (http://www.payneconsulting.com/) has a Metadata assistant which can remove this stuff from Word documents. Also, we advise our computer users at our law firm to never use Word's Track Changes feature because it is not always accurate and can reveal more than we want to share with the outside world. A good alternative is to convert a Word document to PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format and then email the PDF version.

Here's another "issue" that the "Allow Fast Saves" option causes: the Windows File Find utility doesn't know to ignore the hidden deleted text embedded in Word documents, which will cause it to report false "hits" when you use it to search for textwithin files.

Hey folks. Glad to see all the volunteer testers that M$ has available. It is very satisfying to see that we actually pay M$ to test their software and then have the gall to gripe about it.

If you have encountered a bug (otherwise known as an undocumented feature) send it to M$ with a clear concise method to reproduce it and in a couple of centuries they will fix it , NOT.

Disabling Fast Save is not the same as disabling Auto Save. Fast save speeds up the save process by only appending changes as the article describes. Auto Save is the process in which Word periodically automatically saves the file. A previous poster explained that doing a "save as" will clean up the file. That is the process I employed to clean up files long before Microsoft provided the option. My department was working on specs with many drawings pasted in. As the the drawings got revised, the Word files kept getting unexplainably larger and larger. We found "save as" would reduce the file size. On the slower computers of that time, it took noticably longer to perform "save as", but I have not been able to detect any differance on todays high performance computers. The difference between "fast save" and "long save" might be noticable with very long files. I have long recommended to disable "Allow Fast Saves" option just to conserve disk space.

The information you provided was very good to know thanks. However you need to quit confusing AutoSave and Allow Fast Saves. Autosave automatically saves the document periodically so you don't loose as many changes in case of a system crash etc. and is a separate check box on the Save Tab under Options. In almost every heading in your article you said Autosave when in fact you were discussing Allow Fast Saves. They are not the same thing.

maj

If you are sending any sensitive document that you wish only the "as printed" view to be seen then convert the word document to a .pdf format using acrobat.

Acrobat documents cannot normally be edited.

Regards
Bob