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Merging documents with comments
I would like to send a document to many people... get them to add comments to
each of their versions... and then merge the returned douments (identical except for comments) so that all coments now reside in the one document. Is this possible? |
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Try using Tools/Compare and Merge Documents and see if that is what
you are looking for. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "nick.pattison" wrote in message ... I would like to send a document to many people... get them to add comments to each of their versions... and then merge the returned douments (identical except for comments) so that all coments now reside in the one document. Is this possible? |
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BM
unfortunately the merge command doesn't seem to do it... as far as I can tell... I have tried copying all comments but when you paste them into the comments in the master document they just end up as additional text in the comment the cursor is on in the master doc... not a set of new comments against other parts of the text NP "Beth Melton" wrote: Try using Tools/Compare and Merge Documents and see if that is what you are looking for. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "nick.pattison" wrote in message ... I would like to send a document to many people... get them to add comments to each of their versions... and then merge the returned douments (identical except for comments) so that all coments now reside in the one document. Is this possible? |
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Strange. When I tried the Compare and Merge documents command it merge
the Comments from multiple documents for me. What doesn't work exactly? -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "nick.pattison" wrote in message ... BM unfortunately the merge command doesn't seem to do it... as far as I can tell... I have tried copying all comments but when you paste them into the comments in the master document they just end up as additional text in the comment the cursor is on in the master doc... not a set of new comments against other parts of the text NP "Beth Melton" wrote: Try using Tools/Compare and Merge Documents and see if that is what you are looking for. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "nick.pattison" wrote in message ... I would like to send a document to many people... get them to add comments to each of their versions... and then merge the returned douments (identical except for comments) so that all coments now reside in the one document. Is this possible? |
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BM
I am using Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3) and when I select the "Merge Documents..." command I get a dialogue box to select the appropriate file and when I select a file I get the message "The merged documents contain unmarked changes. Do you want to merge up to the first untracked change?" When I click OK I basically get the original document. Maybe I need a later version? NP "Beth Melton" wrote: Strange. When I tried the Compare and Merge documents command it merge the Comments from multiple documents for me. What doesn't work exactly? -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "nick.pattison" wrote in message ... BM unfortunately the merge command doesn't seem to do it... as far as I can tell... I have tried copying all comments but when you paste them into the comments in the master document they just end up as additional text in the comment the cursor is on in the master doc... not a set of new comments against other parts of the text NP "Beth Melton" wrote: Try using Tools/Compare and Merge Documents and see if that is what you are looking for. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "nick.pattison" wrote in message ... I would like to send a document to many people... get them to add comments to each of their versions... and then merge the returned douments (identical except for comments) so that all coments now reside in the one document. Is this possible? |
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I tested it in Word 2003 and didn't encounter the message. Just tested
it in Word 2000 and I encountered the same issue. They revamped the Reviewing features as of Word 2002 so if you have either Word 2002 or Word 2003 available then it should work. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "nick.pattison" wrote in message ... BM I am using Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3) and when I select the "Merge Documents..." command I get a dialogue box to select the appropriate file and when I select a file I get the message "The merged documents contain unmarked changes. Do you want to merge up to the first untracked change?" When I click OK I basically get the original document. Maybe I need a later version? NP "Beth Melton" wrote: Strange. When I tried the Compare and Merge documents command it merge the Comments from multiple documents for me. What doesn't work exactly? -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "nick.pattison" wrote in message ... BM unfortunately the merge command doesn't seem to do it... as far as I can tell... I have tried copying all comments but when you paste them into the comments in the master document they just end up as additional text in the comment the cursor is on in the master doc... not a set of new comments against other parts of the text NP "Beth Melton" wrote: Try using Tools/Compare and Merge Documents and see if that is what you are looking for. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "nick.pattison" wrote in message ... I would like to send a document to many people... get them to add comments to each of their versions... and then merge the returned douments (identical except for comments) so that all coments now reside in the one document. Is this possible? |
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