Re: Office security concerns

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From: Roger
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:00

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I've just bought a new G4, my first Mac, and besides Word, what other
good (up to date) word processors are there? I know only about WP3.5, and
some shareware programs, but they don't export or import Word, RTF or WP
documents.

Roger

Simon Slavin wrote:

> In article <973346515snz@pdchem.demon.co.uk>,
> Paul@pdchem.demon.co.uk (Paul Davis) wrote:
>
> >The actual information about the "Unwanted Data patch" is buried
> >quite deeply wthin the MS website, and I failed to find it using its
> >search facility.  Considering the potential seriousness of this flaw,
> >I'm surprised it's not much better known.
>
> The people who care about the problem have pretty-much already
> decided not to use Word or Excel.  Both programs include lots
> of things in your file even after the patch -- the full path
> to the document and previous saved versions, for instance.

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