[LINK] Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data

[Malcolm Miles]

On 03 Feb 2004 05:10:52 +1100, you wrote:

>With this add-in you can permanently remove hidden and collaboration
>data, such as change tracking and comments, from Word 2003/XP, Excel
>2003/XP, and PowerPoint 2003/XP files. 
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&displaylang=en

So Microsoft add a feature to their applications and then a few months
later release an addin to remove that feature. And unsurprisingly the
removal tool has problems (perhaps we'll soon see a patch to fix the
addin that removes the feature)

>From Woody's Office Watch
<http://www.woodyswatch.com/office/archtemplate.asp?v9-n02>

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1. MS HIDDEN DATA REMOVAL TOOL NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME
I warned ya last week.

Microsoft's "Remove Hidden Data" add-in is a mess. The add-in is 
supposed to strip all that potentially embarrassing hidden text out of
Office files. In fact, it does a pretty good job most of the time, but
it's riddled with errors. Microsoft posted a Knowledge Base article 
http://woodyswatch.com/kb?834636  with 15 known bugs. You folks have 
written to me with several more:
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Best wishes,
Malcolm