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Large Document comparison problems
I am trying to compare two revisions of a document (manually revised in
separate documents, not using any of the built-in revision features). Each is almost 200 pages long and contain several tables. As you might guess, Word choked and hung before completing the comparison. So I broke the files into managable "chunks". Two problems I cannot escape however: 1) One paragragh caused a bizarre problem in that everything after it was marked as deleted and replaced even though it appeared to be 99+% common, thus burying the wheat deep in the chaff. If I manually made the paragraph the same as the original, the delete/replace problem would go away and following individual changes would be identifed as designed. As I incrementally re-typed the changes and repeated the comparison, it would eventually reach the point (and it didn't take many changes) where Word would again gag and show the entire remaining piece of the document as deleted and replaced. Finally I had to just make the "chunk" break right after that paragragh rather than before to get past that problem. However, any ideas as to workable solutions out there and possible explanations for the problem? 2) The other problem is that the large tables produced the same issue as above, but that wasn't a surprise and revisions in tables have always been flaky. Anticipating that however, I saved the table "chunks" as text files to remove all of the formatting issues and then ran the compare. Did not go far into the document before it repeated the same behavior described above. Again...ideas? Thanks Roscoe |
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G'day "Roscoe" ,
Possibly document corruption. Try a Maggie: cuttenpaste everything except the last paragraph mark in each section to a new document. Steve Hudson - Word Heretic steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Without prejudice Roscoe reckoned: I am trying to compare two revisions of a document (manually revised in separate documents, not using any of the built-in revision features). Each is almost 200 pages long and contain several tables. As you might guess, Word choked and hung before completing the comparison. So I broke the files into managable "chunks". Two problems I cannot escape however: 1) One paragragh caused a bizarre problem in that everything after it was marked as deleted and replaced even though it appeared to be 99+% common, thus burying the wheat deep in the chaff. If I manually made the paragraph the same as the original, the delete/replace problem would go away and following individual changes would be identifed as designed. As I incrementally re-typed the changes and repeated the comparison, it would eventually reach the point (and it didn't take many changes) where Word would again gag and show the entire remaining piece of the document as deleted and replaced. Finally I had to just make the "chunk" break right after that paragragh rather than before to get past that problem. However, any ideas as to workable solutions out there and possible explanations for the problem? 2) The other problem is that the large tables produced the same issue as above, but that wasn't a surprise and revisions in tables have always been flaky. Anticipating that however, I saved the table "chunks" as text files to remove all of the formatting issues and then ran the compare. Did not go far into the document before it repeated the same behavior described above. Again...ideas? Thanks Roscoe |
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The document is 200 pages long. That is not practical. As for
corruption, I have no doubt given the ugly nature and the many hands that touched it. |
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So you think your doc is corrupted but refuse to try one of the standard
fixes for corrupt documents? Huh? The first way to check for a corrupt document is to copy the entire thing, *excluding* the last paragraph mark, into a new document. That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can get corrupted, and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps your formatting, but can fix some glitches. A paragraph mark is a ¶. Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks. See this link for further info: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm DM On 1/11/05 12:49 PM, "Roscoe" wrote: The document is 200 pages long. That is not practical. As for corruption, I have no doubt given the ugly nature and the many hands that touched it. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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I misunderstood your directions. When you said every section, I
interpreted that as every paragraph. I did not seize on the "section" word. (and yes, I know what paragragh marks are |
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