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Compare and Merge Legal Black Line - Word XP
I have an original document and an edited document, created by a Save As on
the original the edited document has a different name. I want to show only what has changed and Word Help indicates I could do this with the Legal Blackline option in Compare and Merge. However, when I use this I get the whole document showing, not just the changed parts. So the result is the same as Compare and Merge to New Document. How do I do this so that I get the result I need? I am using Word XP |
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Compare and Merge Legal Black Line - Word XP
Hi MaryAnn,
I have an original document and an edited document, created by a Save As on the original the edited document has a different name. I want to show only what has changed and Word Help indicates I could do this with the Legal Blackline option in Compare and Merge. However, when I use this I get the whole document showing, not just the changed parts. So the result is the same as Compare and Merge to New Document. How do I do this so that I get the result I need? I am using Word XP I'm afraid no version of Word supports exactly what you describe you want to do. You've misinterpreted what the Help topic means to say (admittedly, it's very poorly written, or perhaps the author misunderstood what the developers did). What Legal Blackline does is generate a third document, with differences between the two documents you're comparing displayed as change tracking. But it doesn't pull out ONLY the text that's been changed. In a general way, that wouldn't be very helpful... Just imagine: if someone changed the capitalization of a single word, all you'd get is the first letter of the word - no context or anything. Compare and Merge actually *changes* one of the documents to reflect how it differs from the other. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Compare and Merge Legal Black Line - Word XP
Thanks Cindy
"Cindy M." wrote: Hi MaryAnn, I have an original document and an edited document, created by a Save As on the original รขฌ the edited document has a different name. I want to show only what has changed and Word Help indicates I could do this with the Legal Blackline option in Compare and Merge. However, when I use this I get the whole document showing, not just the changed parts. So the result is the same as Compare and Merge to New Document. How do I do this so that I get the result I need? I am using Word XP I'm afraid no version of Word supports exactly what you describe you want to do. You've misinterpreted what the Help topic means to say (admittedly, it's very poorly written, or perhaps the author misunderstood what the developers did). What Legal Blackline does is generate a third document, with differences between the two documents you're comparing displayed as change tracking. But it doesn't pull out ONLY the text that's been changed. In a general way, that wouldn't be very helpful... Just imagine: if someone changed the capitalization of a single word, all you'd get is the first letter of the word - no context or anything. Compare and Merge actually *changes* one of the documents to reflect how it differs from the other. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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