Child Abuse Verdict Held Back By MS Word Glitch

An anonymous reader writes "Last week several defendants including one high-profile TV presenter were sentenced in Portugal in what has been known as the Casa Pia scandal. The judges delivered on September 3 a summary of the 2000-page verdict, which would be disclosed in full only three days later. The disclosure of the full verdict has been postponed from September 8 to a yet-to-be-announced date, allegedly because the full document was written in several MS Word files which, when merged together, retained 'computer related annotations which should not be present in any legal document.' (Google translated article.) Microsoft specialists were called in to help the judges sort out the 'text formatting glitch,' while the defendants and their lawyers eagerly wait to access the full text of the verdict."

Comments

Re:If they'd been using

[qbast]

Sure. Judge actually using OpenOffice would be newsworthy here.

It's a conspiracy

[antifoidulus]

turns out clippy was working for pedobear this whole time! Or maybe... come to think of it I never have actually seen clippy and pedobear in the same place at the same time....

Re:It's a conspiracy

[Anonymous Coward]

for some reason, gis on pedobear and clippy comes out with this:

http://pulse2.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/msft-clippy.jpg

sfw

Re:It's a conspiracy

[kainosnous]

Clippy: I see that you are writing a ruling. Would you like me to show you the EULA where we already own your ruling through Microsoft's substantial control of the legal system?

Re:Gross oversimplification

[oldmac31310]

Thanks for that concise clarification. Now back to ragging on Word!

Re:To show codes in Word 2007, use OOXML.

[ColdWetDog]

...saving your document in Office 2007 format, opening the document as a zipfile, and seeing the OOXML files.

Thanks for that tip. Only slightly less painful than using a hex editor. Or poking your eyes out.

Office automation at it's finest.