I wrote about this problem in technology columns published in 20. There are many resources to provide those lessons, including a huge number of online sites. The purpose of this column is to remind our profession of the embarrassment that can occur when anyone submits a 'redacted' document to the public that does not protect the confidential information the attempted redaction intended to keep secret. I do not intend this column as an instructional piece on redaction competence.

Your redactions for this email will be removed.Although redaction is a simple concept, it has taken on new significance and become a digital-age nemesis, where readers can access what you thought you deleted or obscured. If you want to remove the redacted content just click the small close button on the redacted tab at the bottom. Once you have completed the redaction process you can click Print to print the redacted content or simply move on to the next email, the redacted content will be automatically stored alongside the original email and shown whenever you reopen the email. The window can be picked up and moved if required. The floating window in the bottom right shows all the words currently redacted or allow listed (never to be redacted for this subject request). You can also double click any word to toggle it's redaction. if text is still present that needs redacting right click the word (or make a selection) and right click and choose 'redact'. If something should not be redacted click on the redacted text and choose 'un redact'. In the redaction page you can still read the text that has been redacted, but don't worry: on printing the content is entirely blanked out.

The automatic redaction will redact all phone numbers, post codes, addresses, email addresses, web links, first and last names from the content.

Word redaction tool 2016