Terence, I personally doubt that Microsoft will do anything more with
redaction than it has already done -- but as none of the people
replying in this newsgroup are Microsoft employees, we don't speak for
the company. In any case, I don't believe Suzanne's reply is an
expression of contentment or any other opinion of the current product.

You have done the right thing by posting your suggestion, and
Microsoft has pledged to read and consider posted suggestions. Until a
company representative replies one way or the other, none of us knows
what will become of the suggestion.

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On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 04:56:27 -0800, "TerenceF"
wrote:

Suzanne, Tony and Herb I rejoice that you are content with the product that
MS alleges is redaction.

It does not conform to NSA's 'Sanitized' view of redaction. I expect the
'redacted' data in the MS Add-in is accessible through value searches and
indexing thus not removed from the document and still avaialble to a keen
enquirer.

Although there is an add-in to 'remove hidden data'
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
there is no contiguous product build.

Is MS going to respond to the NSA model of 'redaction'?

Terence Freedman
The National Archives
London, England

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No, he's talking about the redaction performed by Microsoft's Redaction
Add-in (for Word 2003 only). See

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
What are you talking about?

If you're talking about tracking, it's exceedingly useful and important to
know exactly what was deleted so that a reviewer can assess the impact and
validity of the deletion.

If you're talking about something else, then perhaps you could be a bit
more
specific so that others can know exactly what feature (and in what
context)
you're talking about.

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"TerenceF" wrote in message
...
the redaction process ought to leave no clue as to the origainal text
length
but ought to indicate missing text by inserting the text "[REDACTED]".

Block black-out fails to remove the text length clue.

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