I've been comparing both documents and the only difference I have seen and believe which is not working on my work laptop is because of the 'Normal' reference that I have on my desktop.

I added:
changedXml = Replace(changedXml, " " & " ", "")
changedXml = Replace(changedXml, vbLf & vbLf, "")

but as stated it doesn't fix the issue I was having on my work laptop which is where I need it.