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Documents Reveal US Incompetence with Word, Iraq
notNeilCasey writes "The U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority, which formerly governed Iraq, accidentally published Microsoft Word documents containing information never meant for the public, according to an article in Salon. By viewing the documents using the Track Changes feature in Word (.doc), the author has been able to reconstruct internal discussions from 2004 which reflect the optimism, isolation and incompetence of the American occupation. Download the author's source document or look for more yourself. 'Presumably, staffers at the CPA's Information Management Unit, which produced the weekly reports, were cutting and pasting large sections of text into the reports and then eliminating all but the few short passages they needed. Much of the material they were cribbing seems to have come from the kind of sensitive, security-related documents that were never meant to be available to the public. In fact, about half of the 20 improperly redacted documents I downloaded, including the March 28 report, contain deleted portions that all seem to come from one single, 1,000-word security memo. The editors kept pulling text from a document titled "Why Are the Attacks Down in Al-Anbar Province -- Several Theories." (The security memo and the last page of the March 28 report can be seen here, along with several other CPA documents that can be downloaded.)'"
So a handful of people don't know about or how to use the track changes features in Word and that means the "U.S." is incompetent?
Then, they are discussion the reasons for success and they means are incompetent?
I suspect if the original poster held him/herself to the same standards they would hold everyone else, they would probably just kill themselevs for being incompetent.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Sheesh! I know these steps and I don't even use Windows (I prefer Linux, usually text console command line).
They will never be able to understand how to follow your steps. You'd have to show them how to do this in terms of pull down menus and mouse clicks, with full illustrations of every step. I bet some of them haven't even taken the coffee shield off their keyboard by half way through the day. They only understand mouse and graphics.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars