NSA: HOWTO "sanitize" Word and PDF files

Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists has posted the US National Security Agency's guide to Sanitizing Word and PDF docs.

Section 2: Procedures to Sanitize a Word Document
The following steps were tested with MS Word 2000 and Acrobat 5.0 and 6.0. Other recent versions should work similarly. While time-consuming, these steps give the highest confidence that sensitive information is not hidden in the released document. Copying the text and images into a blank document is a good way to manually review a sensitive document, since sections can be copied over one at a time as they are reviewed.

668K PDF Link (Thanks, Jack!)