[Hidden-tech] retrieving "saved over' word doc

Annamarie Pluhar annamarie at pluharconsulting.com
Wed Oct 13 16:56:35 EDT 2010


Great story! Good caution to folks who do tend to use files as templates. Word of course encourages this by making templates so darn difficult to use. 
Annamarie Pluhar

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On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:

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>  I'm surprised no one mentioned that MS Office documents are notoriously bloated, at least in part 
> because deleted and edited blocks of text are still hidden in the file, just not displayed by the 
> application. So, if it is a document you are familiar with and you are willing to do some 
> reconstruction, you can make a copy and open it with a plain text editor.
> 
> We had an experience one time of getting an excel file with a quote for an expensive piece of 
> equipment. Opening the file with a text editor, we found remnants of the previous quote to another 
> customer from which ours was edited. The other quote was for less. So, in our response, we called 
> the salesperson and said, "but you quoted $x to company Y," without saying where we got the 
> information. The embarrassed salesman backed down, and we saved some money.
> 
> This is a good reason for starting fresh rather than endlessly editing the same document just to get 
> the template, especially when there is sensitive data in the document.
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> On 10/13/10 3:36 PM, dstevens at tryandfindit.com wrote:
>> 
>> Hey Tom,
>> 
>> There was a program I used a while ago to retrieve deleted files and deleted from the trash 
>> files..... can't remember if you could retrieve different versions of a file...... although I 
>> think this software would work.... Let me see if I can find the name of it.
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>>    -------- Original Message --------
>>    Subject: [Hidden-tech] retrieving "saved over' word doc
>>    From: "Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography"
>>    <tomadams at gmail.com <mailto:tomadams at gmail.com>>
>>    Date: Wed, October 13, 2010 9:08 am
>>    To: Hidden-Tech Tech <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
>>    <mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>>
>> 
>>    mornin, hidden-techers
>> 
>>    posting question from a colleague of mine: is there a way to retrieve a document's previous
>>    version before it was saved?
>> 
>>    .
>>    Regards,
>> 
>>    Tom Adams
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