ATTENTION Microsoft Word for Windows users: here is some good news to brighten your Tuesday morning.
Well, perhaps not so much ''brighten your morning'' as ''put the fear of God into you'', especially anyone who has exchanged documents or proposals with business partners on a floppy disk rather than in hard copy format.
''Propeller-heads'' in the United States have found a flaw in the word processor that allows readers of documents to retrieve material that you - the writer - thought you had deleted.
Windows Magazine, in its May issue, will publish a report that describes how, in some circumstances, recipients of a file sent by E-mail, or disk, or shared on a network ''still may be able to read at least some of your original, raw remarks''.
This development is going to scare the living daylights out of anyone who refers to his closest business partners in draft copies of documents as, say, a goose, or a clown, or some other embarrassing name.
Admit it. You have done exactly that.
