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NavyChief
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Nada. The revision tracking wasn't turned on. The only info available is from looking at the properties menu of the document.
Too bad.
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Beatrice1000
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| NavyChief wrote: | Nada. The revision tracking wasn't turned on. The only info available is from looking at the properties menu of the document.
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Did the "versions" indicate version 2?
If not, they just manually made changes -- which in this case would have been sufficient. One uses track changes or new versions in order to send out a marked-up doc to another party in a contractual situation, where the other party needs to see what you have done to the document. In this case, they obviously did NOT NEED to send out a marked-up doc to show the changes they made as they were probably calling the shots. |
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Tom Poole
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Mr Rassmann would be advised to watch his mouth over the next 36 days or some in this forum might publicize sites containing his checkered history. Many of us are very suspicious of his actions then and now. By the way, what was his injury on that day that earned him a Purple Heart?
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Well! It was a perhaps....kinda like the the intelligence of the intellectual elite that forged 6 documents for the DNC, Kerry, and C-BS. I guess intellectual superiority is a state of mind and not a state knowledge..
Actually, it's not a guess, it IS a state of mind!
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rhv5862
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Rassmann will not be speaking to any media outlet unless he has a Kerry Campaign handler with him. None of the "Band of Brothers" are able to be out on their own. Kerry campaign controls their every move.
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| Quote: | | Rassmann will not be speaking to any media outlet unless he has a Kerry Campaign handler with him. None of the "Band of Brothers" are able to be out on their own. Kerry campaign controls their every move. |
Doesn't THAT just set off Red Flags in YOUR mind? What on Earth can the Left Stream Invaliadate Old Former Media be thinking? What happened to investigative reporters?
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rhv5862
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Red flags and Red Flares go up but the MSM does not care. They do not want to find out the truth. If they don't know they cannot be accused of not reporting it. If they do know would they report it? I wonder?
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greasepaint
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Is this thread about a:
MS Word '.DOC' file,
or a plain text file? |
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NavyChief
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Read first post. This is a Word document. 
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a6502
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Try opening it in Notepad.
There is TONS of metadata, including basically - the revisions.
The document is actually instructions on how to make it, and contains info on what was done (in order).
Difficult as hell to read, but once you open it there is WAY more to see in Notepad.
Yes, the funky characters have meaning. Sometimes the 'Registered Owner' of each of the machines involved can be had. |
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RMalloy
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What does Rassman have to say about Kerry's version in Tour of Duty?
| Quote: | On page 314: At that instant Army Lieutenant Jim Rassman,
who was on PCF-35, was blown overboardm although nobody knew it. |
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NavyChief
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On March 13, 1969, John Kerrys courage and leadership saved my life.
While returning from a SEA LORDS operation along the Bay Hap River, a mine detonated under another swift boat. Machine gun fire erupted from both banks of the river, and a second explosion followed moments later. The second blast blew me off Johns swift boat, PCF-94, throwing me into the river. Fearing that the other boats would run me over, I swam to the bottom of the river and stayed there as long as I could hold my breath.
When I surfaced, all the swift boats had left, and I was alone taking fire from both banks. To avoid the in-coming fire, I repeatedly swam under water as long as I could hold my breath, attempting to make it to the north bank of the river. I thought I would die right there. The odds were against me avoiding the in-coming fire and, even if I made it out of the river, I thought Id be captured and executed. Kerry must have seen me in the water and directed his driver, Del Sandusky, to turn the boat around. Kerrys boat ran up to me in the water, bow on, and I was able to climb up a cargo net to the lip of the deck. But, because I was nearly upside down, I couldnt make it over the edge of the deck. This left me hanging out in the open, a perfect target. John, already wounded by the explosion that threw me off his boat, came out onto the bow, exposing himself to the fire directed at us from the jungle, and pulled me aboard.
For his actions that day, I recommended John for the Silver Star, our countrys third highest award for bravery under fire. I learned only this past January that the Navy awarded John the Bronze Star with Combat V for his valor. The citation for this award, signed by the Commander of U.S. Naval Forces, Vietnam, Vice Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, read, Lieutenant (junior grade) KERRYs calmness, professionalism and great personal courage under fire were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. To this day I am grateful to John Kerry for saving my life. And to this day I still believe that he deserved the Silver Star for his courage.
It has been many years since I served in Vietnam. I returned home, got married, and spent many years as a Deputy Sheriff for Los Angeles County. I retired in 1989 as a Lieutenant. It has been a long time since I left Vietnam, but I think often of the men who did not come home with us.
I am neither a politician nor an organizer. I am a retired police officer with a passion for orchids. Until January of this year, the only public presentations I made were about my orchid hobby. But in this presidential election, I had to speak out; I had to tell the American people about John Kerry, about his wisdom and courage, about his vision and leadership. I would trust John Kerry with my life, and I would entrust John Kerry with the well-being of our country.
Nobody asked me to join Johns campaign. Why would they? I am a Republican, and for more than 30 years I have largely voted for Republicans. I volunteered for his campaign because I have seen John Kerry in the worst of conditions. I know his character. I've witnessed his bravery and leadership under fire. And I truly know he will be a great commander-in-chief.
Now, 35 years after the fact, some Republican financed Swift Boat Veterans for Bush are suddenly lying about John Kerrys service in Vietnam, they are calling him a traitor because he spoke out against the Nixon administrations failed policies in Vietnam. Some of these Republican sponsored veterans are the same ones who spoke out against John at the behest of the Nixon Administration in 1971. But this time their attacks are more vicious, their lies cut deep and are directed not just at John Kerry, but at me and each of his crewmates, as well. This hate-filled ad asserts that I was not under fire; it questions my words and NAVY records. This smear campaign has been launched by people without decency, people who dont understand the bond of those who serve in combat.
As John McCain noted, the television ad aired by these veterans is dishonest and dishonorable. Senator McCain called on President Bush to condemn the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush ad. Regrettably, the President has ignored Senator McCains advice.
Does this strategy of attacking combat Vietnam veterans sound familiar? In 2000 a similar Republican smear campaign was launched against Senator McCain. In fact, the very same communications group Spaeth Communications that placed ads against John McCain in 2000 is responsible for these vicious attacks against John Kerry. Texas Republican donors with close ties to George Bush and Karl Rove crafted this dishonest and dishonorable ad. Their new charges are false; their stories are fabricated, made up by people who did not serve with Kerry in Vietnam. They insult and defame all of us who served in Vietnam.
But when the noise and fog of their distortions and lies have cleared, a man who volunteered to serve his country, a man who showed up for duty when his country called, a man who the United States Navy awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts, will stand tall and proud. Ultimately the American people will judge these Swift Boat Veterans for Bush and their accusations. Americans are tired of smear campaigns against those who volunteered to wear the uniform. Swift Boat Veterans for Bush should hang their heads in shame.
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I've read so much I'm probably just confusing events.
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Introduction
Background
Viewing Personal or Hidden Information
Removing Personal Information During Document Saves
Manually Removing Personal Information
Removing Personal Information Programmatically
Displaying Hidden Items
Features That Store Hidden Information
Hyperlinks
Removing Your Name from Macros
Document Variables
See Also
Introduction
MicrosoftЎ Word stores a lot of information in a document, not only about when and how the document was created, and what changes it has undergone in its life, but also about who created it and who made changes to the document. In this article, I will discuss some of the places this information is stored and ways to remove or hide the information.
Privacy and the protection of personal information have become vitally important. Hackers, identity thieves, and even your competitors continue to employ increasingly sophisticated ways to gain access to, and exploit sensitive information about, companies and individuals.
Most software applications store information (also known as metadata) in the files they use to provide and maintain a history of the files, and to aid in searching for and retrieving documents. Metadata is also used to keep all of a file's information in one central location.
Much of this information is stored as part of a product feature or property setting, sometimes without the user being aware of what is being stored or where. Even seemingly innocuous features and settings in a product can store information that can provide telling information about you or your company to prying eyes. For example, Word and some other document processing applications allow you to store different versions of a document in the document file as hidden text. Let's say you've spent several weeks working with your marketing and editorial staff to create a document outlining the features of a new product. You plan on sending this document to your sales staff as part of a new marketing campaign. At the last minute, you decide to remove a couple of features from the product that require more testing but that will definitely be included in the next version of the product. You are unaware that the versioning feature has been turned on for this document so each one of your revisions, including the version with the removed product features, has been saved with the document file. After sending the document to the sales team by e-mail, a copy of the e-mail attachment falls into the hands of a competitor who, after viewing the different versions of the document, sees the version detailing the removed features and sends that information to their engineering team.
Likewise, a document's properties may contain the name and e-mail address of the document's creator, which, at the least, may result in unsolicited e-mail. However, you can protect yourself if you know how and where you personal information is being stored in the documents you create and use.
In this article, we will examine areas in a document where metadata can exist and describe some ways that you can remove this information. With an understanding of where sensitive information may exist in your document and how it got there, you can remove this information with just a little effort. By using the information discussed in this article, you can prevent sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands.
Background
In many different document processing applications, including Word, there are a number of different types of metadata stored. They can include:
* Your name
* Your initials
* Your company or organization name
* The name of your computer
* The name of the network server or hard disk where you saved the document
* The names of previous document authors
* Document revisions
* Document versions
* Template information
* Hidden text
* Comments
The storage of metadata in a document can provide benefits to include ensuring that important information won't be separated from the document as well as safeguarding proprietary information in the event of plagiarism or copyright infringement. However, these benefits must be carefully weighed against the risks of unintentionally exposing this information. By understanding where and what types of metadata can exist in a document, you are in a better position to control what information you expose.
Now let's look at some ways to safeguard and remove sensitive information from Word documents.
Viewing Personal or Hidden Information
Discovering the metadata in a document isn't that difficult. For example, one feature of Word lets you open a document that has become corrupt by viewing the text without the formatting. This feature can also be used to view some of the metadata associated with a document. To test this, perform the following steps on a document of your own:
1. Start Word.
2. On the File menu, click Open.
3. In the Files of type list, click Recover Text from Any File, locate a Word document (.doc) file, and then click Open.
The document opens without any formatting. After scrolling through the document, you may see information such as the name of the author of the document and the path of the stored document.
Before you provide others with a copy of your document, it's a good idea to view any hidden information and decide whether it's appropriate to store this information. For example, if you click Track Changes on the Tools menu, click Versions on the File menu, or select the Allow fast saves option on the Save tab of the Options dialog box on the Tools menu, you should look at removing any hidden or deleted information that might remain in your document. You can do this by completing the tasks in the following sections.
Removing Personal Information During Document Saves
You can ensure that certain personal information is removed when saving your documents. To enable this option, use the following steps:
1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Security tab.
2. Select the Remove personal information from this file on save check box in the Privacy options area, and then click OK.
3. Save the document.
When you select this check box, the following personal information is removed from your document:
* File properties: Author, Manager, Company, and Last saved by.
* Names associated with comments or tracked changes; names are changed to Author.
Note Tracked changes are marks that show where a deletion, insertion, or other editing change has been made in a document.
* Routing slip: The routing slip is removed.
* The e-mail message header that's generated with the E-mail toolbar button is removed.
* Versioning: The name under Saved by is changed to Author.
Note The Remove personal information from this file on save check box is not selected by default. In addition, when this check box is selected, it applies only to the active document and not to any existing or new documents. So you will need to select this check box for each document.
While selecting the Remove personal information from this file on save check box can remove the metadata described above, there is other metadata in a document that is not removed by this check box.
Manually Removing Personal Information
Document properties store information about a document, such as the document's file name, storage location, creation date, and file attributes. However, the document properties can also store more personal metadata, such as the author's name, the author's company, and the document's editor. You can manually remove this information from the properties of a document by using one or both of the following procedures.
In Word:
1. Open the document.
2. On the File menu, click Properties.
3. The Summary, Statistics, Contents, and Custom tabs may each contain information that you will want to remove. To remove, highlight the information in each box and press DELETE.
In Microsoft WindowsЎ Explorer:
1. Locate the document file in the Explorer pane.
2. Right-click the file and then click Properties.
3. The Summary tab may contain information that you will want to remove. To remove, highlight the information in each box and press DELETE.
Removing Personal Information Programmatically
The options covered so far are good for uncovering confidential metadata, but they require that you select each of the options manually. However, trying to remember to do this for each of your documents, or worse, ensuring that the others in your company do this, isn't always practical. Fortunately, Word also provides the RemovePersonalInformation property, which, when set to True, removes all user information from comments, revisions, and the Properties dialog box when the user saves a document. For example, the following procedure creates a new document, and then adds code to the document's Open event that sets the RemovePersonalInformation property to True. This ensures that personal information will be removed from the document whenever the user saves it. For the procedure to take effect, you must close and then reopen the document. Here's how to set the RemovePersonalInformation property for the current document:
1. Start Microsoft Word.
2. Create a new blank document.
3. On the Tools menu, point to Macro and then click Visual Basic Editor.
4. In the Project Explorer window, under the folder for the current document, double-click ThisDocument under the Microsoft Word Objects folder.
5. In the Code window, click the arrow beside the Object drop-down list (left drop-down list), and click Document.
6. Click the arrow beside the Procedure drop-down list (right drop-down list), and then click Open.
7. Insert the following statement between Sub Document_Open() and End Sub:
ThisDocument.RemovePersonalInformation = True
8. Close the Visual Basic Editor by clicking Close and Return to Microsoft Word on the File menu.
9. Save and close the document. When you reopen the document, the document's Open event will execute, setting the RemovePersonalInformation property to True. Personal information will then be removed from the document whenever the user saves it.
Displaying Hidden Items
Sometimes, to protect your personal information, you must display the information before you can decide whether or not to remove it. The following sections explain how to display various items that may contain hidden information.
Display Tracked Changes and Comments
Markup items in a Word document consist of comments and tracked changes, such as insertions, deletions, and formatting changes, which are used by writers and editors to annotate a document during the editing process. When you choose to display all markup, all types of markup and all reviewers' names will be selected on the Show menu.
Note Before deleting, it is a good idea to print a document with the markup to keep a record of changes made to a document.
To display tracked changes or comments, click Markup on the View menu.
Note You can also choose to display a warning if you print, save, or send a document that contains tracked changes by clicking the option Warn before printing, saving, or sending a file that contains tracked changes or comments, which is available on the Security tab in the Options dialog box on the Tools menu.
Display Hidden Text
Hidden text in a Word document is character formatting that allows you to show or hide specified text. For example, while researching and writing a document, you might include, as hidden text in the document, notes to yourself to recheck a reference.
To view hidden text, click Options on the Tools menu, click the View tab, and then select the Hidden text check box in the Formatting marks area. Word indicates the hidden text with a dotted underline.
To remove hidden text from a printed document, click Options on the Tools menu, click the Print tab, and then clear the Hidden text check box in the Include with document area. If you plan to distribute the document online, just delete the hidden text as you would delete any other text.
Remove Previous Versions of a Document
You can specify that you want Word to save one or more versions of your document in the same file. Those versions are then saved as hidden information in the document so that you can retrieve them later. Because these hidden versions are available to others and because they do not remain hidden if the document is saved in another format, you may want to remove these versions before you share the document. There are a couple of ways to do this:
To keep the previous versions, the following steps allow you to save the current version as a separate document and then distribute only that document:
1. On the File menu, click Versions.
2. Click the version of the document you want to save as a separate file.
3. Click Open.
4. On the File menu, click Save As.
5. In the File name box, type a name, and then click Save.
To delete the unwanted versions and then distribute the document, do the following:
1. On the File menu, click Versions.
2. Click the version of the document you want to delete.
3. To select more than one version, press and hold CTRL as you click each version.
4. Click Delete.
Features That Store Hidden Information
Some features in Word store metadata by default. Disabling these features can remove unwanted metadata from your documents.
Fast Save Option
If you save a document with the Allow fast saves check box selected, and then open the document as a text file, the document may contain information that you previously deleted. This happens because a fast save appends the changes you make to the end of the document; it doesn't incorporate the changes (including deleted information) into the document itself.
To completely remove the deleted information from the document, do the following:
1. If you opened the document as a text file, close the text file and open the document as a regular Word document.
2. On the Tools menu, click Options, click the Save tab, and then clear the Allow fast saves check box.
3. On the File menu, click Save.
Random Numbers Used When Merging Documents
When you compare and merge documents, Word uses randomly generated numbers to help keep track of related documents. Although these numbers are hidden, they could potentially be used to demonstrate that two documents are related. To stop storing random numbers during the merge process, perform the following:
1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Security tab.
2. Clear the Store random number to improve merge accuracy check box.
Note If you choose not to store these numbers, the results of merged documents will be less than optimal, meaning that it may be difficult for Word to determine whether two or more documents are related.
Routing Slip Information
If you send a document through e-mail by using a routing slip, routing information may be attached to the document. To remove this information from the document, you must save the document in a format that does not retain routing slip information, such as Rich Text Format (RTF) or HTML format.
You can also use the following procedure to remove routing slip information:
1. Turn off the Allow fast saves option by using the steps in the "Fast Save Option" section of this article.
2. On the File menu, point to Send to, and then click Other Routing Recipient.
3. Click Clear to remove the routing slip, and then click OK.
4. On the File menu, click Save.
The document is now saved without any routing slip information.
Hyperlinks
Documents may contain hyperlinks to other documents or Web pages on an intranet or the Internet. This information is contained within the document and stays with the document if it is shared or copied.
Note Hyperlinked text typically appears as blue and underlined.
To manually delete a single hyperlink from a document, right-click the hyperlink, point to Hyperlink, and then click Remove Hyperlink.
To delete all hyperlinks in a document, you can use a Microsoft Visual BasicЎ for Applications (VBA) macro. In the following procedure, you create a new macro for the current document, add code to remove all hyperlinks in the document, and then execute the macro.
1. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Macros.
2. In the Macros in list, click the name of the current document.
3. In the Macro name box, type a name for the macro. For this example, type the name RemoveHyperlinks.
4. Click Create to open the Visual Basic Editor.
5. Insert the following code between Sub RemoveHyperlinks and End Sub.
Dim objDoc As Document
Dim objStory As Range
Dim objHlink As Hyperlink
For Each objStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
For Each objHlink In objStory.Hyperlinks
objHlink.Delete
Next
Next
6. Close the Visual Basic Editor.
7. To run the macro, point to Macro on the Tools menu, click Macros, click the RemoveHyperlinks macro, and then click Run.
After running this macro, only the link is removed. The text of the hyperlink remains in the document.
To remove all traces of both the hyperlink and the text of the hyperlink from the document, follow the steps above, naming the macro RemoveAllHyperlinks, and then inserting the following code between Sub RemoveAllHyperlinks and End Sub:
Dim objDoc As Document
Dim objStory As Range
Dim objHlink As Hyperlink
For Each objStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
For Each objHlink In objStory.Hyperlinks
objHlink.Range.Delete
Next
Next
Executing this macro will remove both the hyperlink and the text of the hyperlink from the document.
Removing Your Name from Macros
When you record a VBA macro in Word, the recorded macro begins with a header similar to the following:
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 3/11/1999 by <User Name>
To remove your name from any macros that you record, perform the following:
1. Open the document that contains the macros.
2. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Visual Basic Editor.
3. In the Project Explorer window, double-click the module that contains the macros.
4. Remove your name from the recorded macro code by highlighting the text and pressing DELETE.
5. Close the Visual Basic Editor, and then click Save on the File menu to save the document.
Document Variables
Document variables are used to store information in a document. For example, document variables can be used to preserve macro settings between macro sessions. They can also contain metadata.
In the following procedure, you create a new macro, insert code in the macro that displays a message box containing the number of document variables in a document named "MyDoc.doc," and then execute the macro:
1. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Macros.
2. In the Macros in list, click the name of the current document.
3. In the Macro name box, type a name for the macro. For this example, use the name CountofDocVariables.
4. Click Create to open the Visual Basic Editor.
5. Insert the following code between Sub CountofDocVariables and End Sub.
MsgBox Documents("MyDoc.doc").Variables.Count & " variables"
6. Close the Visual Basic Editor.
7. To run the macro, point to Macro on the Tools menu, click Macros, click the CountofDocVariables macro, and then click Run. A message box is displayed with the count of document variables in the document.
Using the previous steps, you can create other macros that work with document variables. For example, you can create a new macro and then insert the following procedure to display the name and value of each document variable in the active document:
...
For Each myVar In ActiveDocument.Variables
MsgBox "Name =" & myVar.Name & vbCr & "Value = " & myVar.Value
Next myVar
...
You can use the following statement to delete a particular document variable from a document:
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ActiveDocument.Variables.Item("MyVar").Delete
...
In this article, we have covered just a few of the ways of dealing with metadata in your document. For more information on other ways to manage this information, see the following references.
See Also
HOW TO: Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word 97 (technical article)
HOW TO: Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word 2000 (technical article)
HOW TO: Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word 2002 (technical article)
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Let me see a copy of the original so I can decode the binary. The payload of the doc is 90% controle code and that is where it's history is.
I write code all day long, that's my job. I'm not making any promises, but let me take a crack at that thing.
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