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Word 2010 Document Security And The Single Technical Writer

There is more to document security than just locking down documents on a SharePoint site where it is only accessible to users with the appropriate security privileges. Microsoft Word documents can hold many secrets that have embarrassed both corporations and United States Federal government agencies in the past. Technical writers should be the ones taking the lead when it comes to securing the documents they produce.

Here are some tips for adding Word document security to your writing and document release processes:

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Book Review: The Secret Life of Word by Robert Delwood

One of the dirty secrets about Microsoft Word in the technical communications world is that you have to put in the time to make it work.  The Secret Life of Word by Robert Delwood from XML Press tackles some of the higher end topics in Microsoft Word like creating macros, find and replace; fields, form fields, and content controls; building blocks; and smart tags in an easy to digest manner that is accessible to even non-Word geek technical communicators.

It uses step-by-step procedures that should help Word newbies to inveterate tinkerers and even experts learn new higher end (and often underutilized) features.

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