Richard Rasker pulled this Usenet boner:

owl wrote:

In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 wrote:

Got it? And that means you lose the negotiation, lose the sale, lose
the job, lose your job.

Could you outline a scenario where lack of a document feature would
cause loss of a negotiation, sale, or job?

I can think of a scenario where the use of an MS Office format will lose you
the negotiation, the sale /and/ your job -- when it turns out that the .doc
or .xls files you sent still contained sensitive information that was never
meant to leave the premises.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3154479.stm

Analysis of hidden information in the so-called Iraq "dodgy dossier"
showed, among other things, the names of the four civil servants who
worked on it.

Downing Street press office head Alastair Campbell had to explain who
these people were to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select
Committee investigating the genesis of the plagiarised document.

. . .

The UK government has now largely abandoned Microsoft Word for documents
that become public and has turned to documents created using Adobe
Acrobat which uses the Portable Data Format (PDF).

Looks like "Word" lost one of its jobs. :-)

Unix and Linux users can turn to tools such as Antiword and Catdoc to
turn the document, including its formatting information, into a simple
text file.

. . .

He gathered about 100,000 Word documents from sites on the web and every
single one of them had hidden information.

. . .

"Microsoft is aware of the functionality of metadata being stored within
Word 97 documents and would advise users to follow the instructions laid
out in [the Microsoft Knowledge Base - see Related Internet Links]," says
a spokesperson. "However, Microsoft do not wish to comment on how
customers use the functionality within our software."

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