XPost: alt.usage.english, sci.lang   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:19:39 -0700, HenHanna    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >       i'm a bit annoyed when People send me   (MS Word)  .doc    files,   
   >because i must first convert them to    .pdf    before i can read them.   
   >   
   >   
   >TIL (Today I Learn) that  .doc   files are (sometimes?) unsafe to share:   
      
   If you can't read them, then they are not unsafe.   
      
   Sometimes they might have macros, but the macros would have no effect   
   unless you read them with MS-Word, which you obviously aren't doing.   
      
   >         >>> people send them thinking they are sending text files...   
   >and wind up sending an awful lot of metadata .... (like the undo   
   >history).  LibreOffice will read Word (.doc) files and let you export to   
   >text, pdf, or rtf formats which are safe to share.   
      
   If I am sending people a document that I want them to add to or alter,   
   I send it in RTF format, which most word processors can handle. If   
   they just need to read it, then PDF is easier.   
      
   >        >>>  university ...  Vice-Chancellor who sent out "all staff"   
   >memos by e-mail in MS-Word format. ...   
   >   .... composed them by taking an existing MS-Word file and altering   
   >the contents.     He apparently didn't know about the "revision history"   
   >feature, ........  ended up leaking confidential documents.   
      
   Yes, that is stupid.   
      
   I send all emails in plain text, and if formatting is needed, I send   
   it as a faile attachment.   
      
      
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   Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa   
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