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Comparing word documents that has removed tables
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 |
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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.
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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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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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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.
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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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Dangerous ambiguity in my post: I meant plain text as in "plain text vs tables", not ".txt vs .doc(x)" :-}
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