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Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

Some of you may have seen this already, since it has been passed around on Twitter, but I just had to point to Rick Segal’s hilarious blog post about a startup that did everything right in its business plan — right up until it sent the document without clicking the &# ... Continue reading »

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Mark Dykeman
1 year ago

Oy vey.

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ash
1 year ago

From what I understand there's a way to clean documents in Word so that tracking info is removed (so you can still use it for editing, but create a document copy without change history).

Nice little summary here :http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2006-01-19-hidden-msword-data_x.htm

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antje
1 year ago

Those poor guys.... lol..... good thing they have a sense of humour

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Alex
1 year ago

A rabbi, a priest and an imam walk into a bar...

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Buy Business Note
1 year ago

Very good tip. I would have never thought that such a small thing could cause such a major problem. Sometimes we have too much technology for our own good <g>

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Dave Carter
3 months ago

At a former employer, a friend didn't notice that the spellchecker had done a global replace on "engr" (an abbreviation of "engineer") with the word "negro" before he sent it to a very wide distribution list. Hilarious result in many of the replacements, as you can imagine....

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