redact in a Word document

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Is there a way to redact text or images in Word?
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Meaning? What do you want to do, put black lines over them? As long as
they're in a Word file, they'll still be there.
 
TLBrooks said:
Is there a way to redact text or images in Word?
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What version of Word are you using? If you are using Word 2007 then there's
a Redaction add-in you can use:
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2008/09/22/a-word-2007-redaction-tool.aspx

For Word 2003 here's a link to the add-in but most have been unsuccessful
using it. Unfortunately if you encounter an error when running it there's
little you can do:
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/08/03/447421.aspx

Note that either add-in will redact the content. They replace each character
with a black box (or shading - I don't recall) but it's a replacement and
not a format or overlay. Once it's redacted the original content will be
removed from the document and no longer contained in the document. IOW, the
content will not still be there.

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Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx
 
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