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Educational Sample Lab

Learn with synthetic files before inspecting a private document. No account is required, and these lessons contain no personal data.

Read the evidence carefully

Four different things—not one conclusion

Source evidence
Content or structure stored in the synthetic original file.
Scanner finding
An automated review signal describing what a detector observed.
Rendered reference
A temporary scanner-generated view that can differ from Word or Excel and never replaces source evidence.
Human conclusion
A judgment made after checking context. The scanner does not determine intent, authorship, misconduct, or safety.

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Word · Beginner

clean-word-control.docx

Reviewed results match
  • Clean controls

What is hidden?

Confirm that a simple Word document with visible body text remains a clean control.

Nothing intentionally hidden. This is the format’s clean comparison file.

Why might this be benign?

This document intentionally excludes collaboration and hidden-content features.

How should I verify it?

Open Show/Hide and Review panes, then confirm there is nothing additional to remove.

Expected versus observed

Reviewed with scanner 1.9.1v. Locations describe source evidence; they are not human conclusions.

Expected: no findings. Observed: no findings.

Download synthetic Word sample

Synthetic fixture · 36661 bytes · SHA-256 1ee981c9e39a247eeea40835d9a84e25468316ef93f967bff3bb45ae8e2c43ec

Word · Intermediate

word-structure-pattern-lab.docx

Reviewed results match
  • Visual concealment
  • Metadata
  • Collaboration history
  • Hidden document structure

What is hidden?

Review hidden runs, comments, revisions, properties, headers, footers, and ambiguous repeated text.

Why might this be benign?

Templates, collaboration, editing history, and repeating labels commonly produce these structures.

How should I verify it?

Use Word's review and document-inspector tools to decide which stored content should remain.

Expected versus observed

Reviewed with scanner 1.9.1v. Locations describe source evidence; they are not human conclusions.

ExpectedHidden Word textParagraph 2
Observed Hidden Word textParagraph 2 · document only
ExpectedDocument commentDocument-wide
Observed Document commentDocument-wide · document only
ExpectedTracked changeTracked changes
Observed Tracked changeTracked changes · document only
ExpectedDocument metadataDocument properties
Observed Document metadataDocument properties · document only
ExpectedHidden Word textSection 1 header
Observed Hidden Word textSection 1 header · document only
ExpectedHidden Word textSection 1 footer
Observed Hidden Word textSection 1 footer · document only
Show 3 additional expected scanner observations
  • Document metadata — Document properties
  • Document metadata — Document properties
  • Tracked change — Tracked changes
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Synthetic fixture · 38571 bytes · SHA-256 ee75ccf65cba1fa2519ca8bedfe0720265d717ecdd7759feabb82e712636e6b3

Private inspection, public lessons

The catalog and downloads are public synthetic resources. Choosing “Inspect this sample” copies validated fixture bytes into the normal private scan workspace, creates the same temporary owner-scoped report as a regular scan, and applies the same deletion and expiry rules.

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