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178603 2003-09-28 07:39:00 What programme do I use to see the hidden and/or deleted bits of word files I am sent? TIA kiwitwat (4646)
178604 2003-09-28 08:10:00 You use Microsoft Word.

There will not be any "hidden stuff" if Track Changes has not been used, or if all changes were accepted before it was sent.

Turn on Track Changes

Select Final Showing Markup

If any modifications are still there, then they will be visible.

As above, if the sender has either not used "Track Changes" or if they have, and the Changes have been accepted, there will be nothing extra to see.

Of inerest is the File-Properties tabs. See who actually created the file.
godfather (25)
178605 2003-09-28 08:55:00 Thanks for that but word leaves traces of deleted bits still available in the finished, saved file. There is a programme that will access this. kiwitwat (4646)
178606 2003-09-28 09:11:00 It may not be quite what you are looking for Neil, but ZTree for Windows lets you view every tiny bit of data in a Word file, or any other file for that matter, and edit or delete it if you want to. You would be amazed what turns up in Works WP files, not all of it belonging to that document!

Other file viewers may be able to do the same thing.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
178607 2003-09-28 09:39:00 If you want it at byte level, good old DOS DEBUG still exists in Windows XP.

That will give a Hex and Ascii display of every byte. Most thorough.
godfather (25)
178608 2003-09-28 10:05:00 You will only have vestiges of edits in the .doc file if the "Allow Fast Saves" in the options was checked. If this is unchecked, a 'clean' copy of the file is written on saving. The "Allow Fast Saves" appends edits to the end of the existing file - bloating out the size as it is re-edited, but (as the feature's name suggests) may save the edit session faster. In some circumstances, Allow Fast Saves has caused unexplained crashing in Word, so a number of users disable this "feature". :| wuppo (41)
178609 2003-10-01 11:51:00 Hidden File Detector is a free utility that allows you to quickly and easily detect and display hidden file-containing fields in a Word document. It reliably detects hidden fields no matter where they reside in the document, including headers and footers and the draw layer.

www.wordsite.com
Stumped Badly (348)
178610 2003-10-01 12:39:00 www.wordsite.com

Better link ;) That'll save you some time filling out the form for the download. Damn they annoy me!
PoWa (203)
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