Thanks guys, good to know. I am making sure the excerpt is changed now to reflect what is in the description of the file. At least things should be relatively uniform now.
I think the only place it would be visible to others if in the RSS feed if you change your settings to “summary” mode. This is from the WP Codex: It replaces the full content in RSS feeds when the option to display summaries is selected in Dashboard › Settings › Reading.
I checked mine and it has Full Content checked. I don’t recall ever changing that so it’s probably the default.
I will have to check that … so many little things I am learning 