Use the Word 2003 Redaction Add-in to hide text within Microsoft Office Word 2003 documents. You can mark text to redact and then create a new, redacted version of the document in which the marked text is replaced with a black bar that cannot be converted back to text.
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Quick Details
File Name:
RedactionSetup.msi
Version:
1.0
Date Published:
5/2/2006
Language:
English
Download Size:
1004 KB
Estimated Download Time:
3 min 56K
Overview
Redaction is the careful editing of a document to remove confidential information.
The Microsoft Office Word 2003 Redaction Add-in makes it easy for you to mark sections of a document for redaction. You can then redact the document so that the sections you specified are blacked out. You can either print the redacted document or use it electronically. In the redacted version of the document, the redacted text is replaced with a black bar and cannot be converted back to text or retrieved.
Sensitive government documents, confidential legal documents, insurance contracts, and other sensitive documents are often redacted before being made available to the public. With the Word 2003 Redaction Add-in, users of Microsoft Office Word 2003 now have an effective, user-friendly tool to help them redact confidential text in Word documents.
Tips for using this add-in are available from Work Essentials, a resource that provides free occupation-focused expert advice, demos, templates, and webcasts.
Notes:
In a redacted document, the black bar that replaces the redacted text takes up the same amount of space as the original text so that line spacing and line breaks are unaffected. As a result, readers may be able to determine the length of a redacted word based on the size of the blacked out area. To help protect your redacted document from attempts to recover information by using word length, avoid redacting single words. If you need to redact a single word, you can replace it with a longer or shorter word before you select it for redaction.
We recommend that you carefully review any documents redacted using this tool to confirm that all the information that you intended to redact was successfully redacted.
In version 1.2 problems with .NET Framework 2.0 are resolved.
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