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Posted by Jim on June 13, 2007, 7:14 am
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> Jim wrote:
>>
>>> Simply have the other person cut your text and paste it into a
>>> fresh word document on their computer??
>>>
>>>> Is there a security utility which can help me with the
>>>> following?
>>>>
>>>> I need to write some letters for someone else as if the letters
>>>> were written only by the other person. I use my PC to write the
>>>> leter and will email the other person a Word DOC file to use on
>>>> their PC. We both use Word 2003 on WinXP.
>>>>
>>>> However I do not want the DOC file I send to show that I have
>>>> been involved in any way at all.
>>>>
>>>> (a) I do not want data in File > Properties.
>>>> (b) I do not want to have my default margins, font, etc.
>>>> (c) I don't want the document file to have other data which has
>>>> from elsewhere on my PC (perhaps temp data).
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>>
>>>> Until now I have been sending them unformatted text but this
>>>> means the other person has to paste it into Word and then lay it
>>>> all out and put in all the formatting for empahsis.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some software which will strip out the identifiers in a
>>>> Word DOC file to anonymise it?
>>>>
>>>> Do I need to use some Word function to have two different sets
>>>> of default layout? (See b above.)
>>>
>>
>>
>> Often cut and paste in Windows can preserve formatting. :-(
>
> If you're concerned about the formatting, type it in a plain text
> editor such as Notepad and send it that way.
>
It is very important that I minimise the other person's work. If I
give them plain text to lay out and format then they will rightly say
is not part of our arrangement.
If you recall I want to do the actual work.
I want the result must not to look as if it came from me or from my
copy of Word or from my PC.
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