Word (and other MS Office) Attachments in Email

[manicdee]

Please do not send me attachments in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint formats.

Comments

[ocelot_eyes]

Yeah I don't understand why people do that. They think MS Word > everything, and that everyone on every computer can read it. (With their own fonts, which they think will come with their .doc file, even though they only have them installed on their own computer... LRN2PDF!!!)

At my old job, I've had to decode emails from customers wanting to buy art, every email sent as attachment WordPerfect files or some thingamajig, which I had to download other stuff to even be able to decode and open. >.< They thought that because it had "Word" in it that MS Word could open it...

As for "# The document format will contain information about the computer, printer and network that you are using - if a malicious party was to get access to the document they could use the information to cause your company harm" - I had no idea Word files did that! O_O How do they do this?

[manicdee]

The Word document embeds the Ethernet address of the computer it was created on, along with the printer driver settings, the file server that the document came from, and I think it also includes the IP addresss of the computer and printer server.

It's not much information, but it is more than nothing.

A PDF gives out no information at all.

[ocelot_eyes]

Wow - where does Word store this information? And more importantly, WHY?! O_O

[manicdee]

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