On September 29, 2009
Professionally Redact Confidential Information in Word Documents
If you’ve ever had to edit a document to purge corporate confidential or personally identifiable information, you know it’s not a fun exercise. You either need to edit the document by deleting the data outright — and that means rewriting it so it still makes grammatical sense — or getting fancy with Word’s formatting tools to overwrite the redacted bits. I’ve got a better solution: A free Word add-on that is designed expressly to redact text, and it gives your documents a sort-of-CIA-like professional appearance. Indeed, the Word 2007 Redaction Tool marks out text so thoroughly that it makes your ordinary documents look like you’re covering up the flying saucer crash at Roswell. It’s a standard add-on for Word…
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