Chapter 3. Understanding Electronic Documents

In this chapter, you will:

  • Explore considerations for sharing documents electronically

  • Understand the importance of font choices when sharing documents

  • Learn about potentially private information in your documents

  • Discover how to easily manage hidden data in your documents

In the age of typewriters, it didn’t much matter how we went about creating documents. All the recipient ever saw was the paper result. Then came along electronic documents, when we started to care more about how documents looked on screen because we were sharing content by email or on portable media such as CDs and flash drives. Today, not only are most documents shared electronically, but more and more documents live in the cloud for ...

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