Another major tech news organization has picked up and flogged another red herring about a hack to Word’s password-protection feature. Another major tech news organization has picked up and flogged another red herring. “A simple hack to Word’s password-protection feature means documents may not be as secure as users believe. No fix is on the […]
What’s causing Outlook 2003 to exit with the message “Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal.dot. Do you want to save those changes?” If WinFax Pro is the source of the Outlook 2003 hang problem, what’s causing Outlook 2003 to exit with the message “Changes have been made that affect the global […]
Microsoft isn’t the only group that’s waving its dirty laundry in the wind. Last week I talked about the importance of stripping “hidden” information from Word documents before posting them on the Internet. I took you through a bunch of examples of docs on Microsoft’s own site that included detailed – in some cases potentially […]
A reader writes in with a problem related to field codes in Word. An old friend – I last saw him at Comdex when Comdex was Comdex, if ya know what I mean – wrote with an interesting question: “As usual, I have a weird Word question that’s baffling me, so I figured I’d go […]
Word hides important, personal information inside its documents. You can get rid of some of the information most of the time – but it’s very, very difficult to delete potentially embarrassing information all of the time. I’m astounded at how many people just don’t get it. Word hides important, personal information inside its documents. You […]
