

If you are prompted to save the document changes when you close the file, click Save.įor more information, see the Microsoft support page.Click Remove All to delete the information. If it finds any items, you will be prompted to remove them. The system will search for items that pertain to the categories you selected.* - You will need to scroll down to see this option. Document Properties and Personal Information In the Document Inspector window, select at a minimum, the following options:.Click the Check for Issues icon shown in a box and then click Inspect Document.In your original document, click the File tab and then click Info. You will see some of the hidden information on the right.Then select where you want to save the file, type a name in the File Name box and click Save. Save a copy of your document by clicking the File tab and selecting Save As.Perform the following steps each time you plan to distribute a final electronic copy of a Word, PowerPoint or Excel file. Note that these instructions do not pertain to the online versions of these programs. There are some simple ways to do this, as described below. To protect any sensitive information from accidentally being made public, Information Technology Services recommends that you get into the habit of removing this information before distributing final electronic copies of your documents. Name of author and person who last modified the file.Tracked changes, comments, annotations, and versions, even if not displayed.Any hidden comments or revisions in these documents could then possibly be used as evidence.Įxamples of hidden or personal information that are stored in Office documents include: It could even potentially put the university at legal risk.įor example, during the discovery phase in a lawsuit, electronic copies of relevant documents could be subpoenaed. Depending on the nature of the information, this could place you in an embarrassing or compromising position. According to the Web Platform Tests dashboard, Chrome-based browsers support 94 per cent of the test suite, and Firefox pulls off 91 per cent, but Safari only manages 71 per cent.You may not be aware that your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files often contain hidden or personal information, such as revisions or comments, that others can access. But Safari – or more specifically the WebKit engine that powers it – is well behind the competition. Whether it's far enough behind to be considered "the new IE" is debatable and may say more about the shadow IE still casts across the web than it does about Safari. Today developers who want to use "cutting-edge" web APIs find themselves resorting to the same kind of browser-specific workarounds, but this time the browser dragging things down comes from Apple.Īpple's Safari lags considerably behind its peers in supporting web features. Microsoft's browser of yore made their lives miserable and it's only slightly hyperbolic to say it very nearly destroyed the entire internet. Custom add-ins, VBA projects, ancient APIs that remain for legacy reasons, all mean this will be a tricky application to replace.įeature The legacy of Internet Explorer 6 haunts web developer nightmares to this day.

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What if Microsoft replaces the Windows version with a similarly rebuilt product? Perhaps it will but the difficulty is that Outlook is baked into the Windows ecosystem and forms part of workflows, some automated with COM technology, that will break if Microsoft replaces it. Lastly, the problem of Outlook on Windows being different from Outlook on Mac will get worse. Teams integration will also be strong and Microsoft has demonstrated features like converting an event to a Teams meeting, handy in times of lockdown. Second, Outlook Mac will be focused on cloud, especially Office 365, though it also already has good support for Google mail. This is not a high bar: Outlook on Windows is a mess from a user interface perspective, and has dialogues buried within that have not changed for decades. First, it will be the best Outlook yet, perhaps on any platform, in terms of appearance and design. Microsoft has not specified a release date for the new Outlook Mac but a few things are clear. The current preview is not fully usable, but fortunately switching back is quick The problem of Outlook on Windows being different from Outlook on Mac will get worse
