Below you'll find one of the five articles from today's edition of TechnoLawyer NewsWire:
A Private Eye for Your Word Documents
By Jill Bauerle
Some software companies use clever spelling and punctuation to draw attention to their products. Workshare's free security alert program TRACE! 2.0 comes by its name honestly. All too often, Microsoft Office users enable the "Track Changes" option and later forget to click "Accept all Changes" from the appropriate document menu, inadvertently leaving traces of their work in finished documents, especially when two or more lawyers collaborate. TRACE! scans your outgoing documents for footnotes, redlined changes, comments, even profanity, and saves you the embarrassment of broadcasting what was meant to be for your collaborator's eyes only. Once installed, TRACE! works in the background, scanning and rating your Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents for high, medium, and low risk security breaches. Besides sniffing out rogue commentary, this new version of TRACE! checks documents for leftover intellectual property, financial information, regulatory information, server paths, and e-mail addresses. When TRACE! detects a breach, an interface window pops up. Clicking on the alert button will print a report of every last line of hidden data and metadata in a file. A user-friendly interface window also enables you to assess batches of documents in folders, e-mails, and on Web sites. TRACE! is compatible with Windows 2000/XP and Office 2000, Office XP or Office 2003. Learn more about TRACE!.
How to Receive this Newsletter
Published on Wednesdays, TechnoLawyer NewsWire is a weekly newsletter that enables you to learn about new technology products and services of interest to legal professionals. Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.
