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According to the British Broadcasting Corp., the U.K. government recently decided to abandon Microsoft Word for documents that become public and instead use documents created with Adobe Acrobat, which uses the portable data format (PDF).
Why? Because metadata, typically considered helpful, may be too helpful to some. A document created, opened, or saved in Microsoft Word may contain content that the author might not want to share with others when the document is distributed electronically. This metadata may include names and user names of...