Hi,

I have a large number of documents where the text was written in a number of tables throughout the document. We have created new documents that have reformatted and also all the tables have been converted to text only.

I want to make sure that in doing this excersise none of the actual text has changed but when I try to use Compare/Track changes it doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone have any suggestions?



Thanks

Acrobat Pro has (well-hidden) View > Compare documents with a "compare text only" option; or you could convert the two Word files to plain text and use a text editor (Notepad++, for example) with a compare function.

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
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… 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.

But I didn't suggesting using plain text & Word, either. What I suggested was converting the tables to text (a function already built into Word), which is a completely different proposition.

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Paul Edstein
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Dangerous ambiguity in my post: I meant plain text as in "plain text vs tables", not ".txt vs .doc(x)" :-}