CBS is defending its apparently faked documents today with the help of software designer Richard Katz. Katz may be a software designer, but he apparently is not a regular user of MS Word,
Several of the document examiners said one clue that the documents may be forgeries was the presence of superscripts — in this case, a raised, smaller “th” in two references to Guard units.
But Katz, the software expert, pointed out that the documents have both the so-called “superscript” th (where the letters are slightly higher than the rest of the sentence, such as 6th ) and a regular-sized “th”. That would be common on a typewriter, not a computer.
“There’s one document from May 1972 that contains a normal “th” on the top. To produce that in Microsoft Word, you would have to go out of your way to type the letters and then turn the “th” setting off, or back up and then type it again,” said Katz.
Dude, it’s Control-Z. Someone get this man a copy of Word for Dummies already.