As the report says, it should work. Ahem.
Lots of people are linking to the NSA’s Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish Sanitized Reports Converted From Word to PDF. I especially like Ed Bott’s reaction to the guide, which points out a few concerns you might keep in mind if you plan to rely on the guide’s content.
Bott highlights the following quote from the guide:

The following steps were tested with MS Word 2000 and Acrobat 5.0 and 6.0. Other recent versions should work similarly.

The money quote from Bott:

“Should work similarly”? That doesn’t give me a lot of confidence. If you’re going to go to the trouble of producing a definitive set of guidelines for such a crucial subject, why use only one seven-year-old version of Word? How long could it have taken to test these procedures with Word 2002 (from Office XP) and Word 2003 (from Office 2003)? And why not give it a run-through with Acrobat 7.0, the current version?

Caveat emptor. Take advantage of the good information, but be wary of relying only on this guide, especially if you routinely use current versions of software.
[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (https://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]
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