Not sure how you define logical. It didn't work well in Word 2002. MS made
changes to make the product better, including comparison that works better
in the Word 2003 upgrade. Having to get the new, fixed, product to get the
benefits meets my definition of logical.
I'll be surprised if you find a way to make Word 2002 work like Word 2003
without upgrading but am open to suggestions.
I didn't spend a lot of time with Word 2002 (XP) and am using Word 2003.
Track changes was broken in Word 97 and bad enough in Word 2000 that
Microsoft still recommended third-party solutions. If I run into trouble I
still would convert one or both documents to text-only files and run the
comparison on those. Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. The link I gave
you is to a page on how to best use the track changes features in Word
including document comparison. It was written for Word 97/2000 but is still
useful.
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Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ:
http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Joshua Gray" wrote in message
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So you are basically saying that is an inherent problem in Word and the
only
thing I can do is upgrade all my users to Word 2003? That doesn't seem
very
logical to me...
"Charles Kenyon" wrote:
Document comparison has and remains an iffy proposition with Word. They
keep
making improvements. It looks like you found one.
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/track_changes.htm
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Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Joshua Gray" wrote in message
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I am having a very strange problem that hopefully you will be able to
shed
some light on. This problem is affecting multiple users using Word 2002
w/
SP3.
If they compare an edited document to an original using "Compare and
Merge
Documents..." they will see very odd and pointless redlining being
done.
For
example, if they added one word to a paragraph, it will say that they
deleted
the entire paragraph and reinserted it directly below it. Keep in mind
that
both the original and edited version where created in the same version
of
Word 2002.
However, when I use Word 2003 w/ SP1 to compare the exact same
documents,
it
shows that only the one word that was added was actually inserted, not
the
entire paragraph.
I have tried to remove/reinstall Word on their PC's, but the problem
repeatedly occurs. Do you have any other suggestions??
THanks,
Josh.