Hide/shade financial section of document

[Wally]

Hello.
I have a Word document that has some financial information in it, in
one section. I'd like to share this document with people in my
organization as it contains other useful information. However, there
is no reason for them to see the financial information.
Other than just deleting the text in the document is there a way to
hide or shade this information? If there's a way to hide/shade the
information I'd also want to prevent them from unhiding/shading the
information.

Thanks,
Walter

 

[Jay Freedman]

No, if the information is still in the document -- no matter what
you've done to make it "hidden" -- it can be seen by someone who goes
looking for it. It's *much* safer to make a copy of the document,
delete the information from the copy, and distribute only the copy.

There's a lot of information about "personal information" and
"metadata" in Word documents, and how to be sure it's removed:

How to Minimize Metadata in Word
WD97:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223790
WD2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=237361
WD2002:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290945
Remove Hidden Data add-in for Office 2003 and Office XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=834427
Protecting Personal Data in Your Word 2003 Documents

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/odc_WDProtectWord2003.asp

A lot of this is also relevant to things you just don't want to show
to everybody.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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