That's OK if you have Acrobat Pro, but most Word users don't (version 8 is available as a free download from: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/46...at-8-free.html - note the serial# mentioned there).

The simplest way to make the comparison would be to convert the tables in a copy of the original document to text, without making any other changes, then compare that copy against the reformatted document.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

… which is why I suggested plain text as well :-} though I never thought of using plain text and Word together. A blind spot in my mental model, if that's not too mixed a metaphor.