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Word Compare and Merge Document Function
The Compare and Merge Document function in word is almost useless. I create
a wide variety of documents for the Navy for various systems being updated or developed. My Compare and Merge requirement is to to compare a new version of the document with an old version of the document and overlay the new information on to the old information. A simple AND or OR function is not going to be useful. My suggestion is to design the Compare and Merge Document function so that: 1. The function starts by matching up the paragraph or section headings of the opened doc's headings to fit the selected filename doc's headings and renumbering the opened doc's headings to match or fit within the selected file's headings. 2. The opened document is has priority over the selected file to compare and merge with for test replacement. The goal to achieve is to compare and merge the latest changes in order to update the existing document. Currently the compare and merge just seems to do an AND function. It deletes document portions where there is no text to compare and it simple combines the latest added words to the old text. Perhaps a way to achieve more versatility is to give the user an option list of AND, OR, NOR, Exclusive AND, etc. or possibly a sequential function selection of up to three. Say first to OR everything and save then to Exclusive AND etc. To accomplish that I described above. You could add in artificial intelligence programing to provide an option for a smart compare and merge where it asks the author a series of questions such as: Do you want to retain sections of text that have no matching test in the open document? (Y or N). This would enable the function of build a set of rules to perform the compare and merge and attain the authors goal. |
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It would more constructive to address these 'suggestions' to Microsoft,
rather than berating the help forum with them. No doubt they will dismiss them as inane and pretentious, but there you go. "EricM" wrote in message ... The Compare and Merge Document function in word is almost useless. I create a wide variety of documents for the Navy for various systems being updated or developed. My Compare and Merge requirement is to to compare a new version of the document with an old version of the document and overlay the new information on to the old information. A simple AND or OR function is not going to be useful. My suggestion is to design the Compare and Merge Document function so that: 1. The function starts by matching up the paragraph or section headings of the opened doc's headings to fit the selected filename doc's headings and renumbering the opened doc's headings to match or fit within the selected file's headings. 2. The opened document is has priority over the selected file to compare and merge with for test replacement. The goal to achieve is to compare and merge the latest changes in order to update the existing document. Currently the compare and merge just seems to do an AND function. It deletes document portions where there is no text to compare and it simple combines the latest added words to the old text. Perhaps a way to achieve more versatility is to give the user an option list of AND, OR, NOR, Exclusive AND, etc. or possibly a sequential function selection of up to three. Say first to OR everything and save then to Exclusive AND etc. To accomplish that I described above. You could add in artificial intelligence programing to provide an option for a smart compare and merge where it asks the author a series of questions such as: Do you want to retain sections of text that have no matching test in the open document? (Y or N). This would enable the function of build a set of rules to perform the compare and merge and attain the authors goal. |
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Actually, it looks like Eric used the "suggestion" feature of the forum. It
was pointed out to me a few weeks ago the different between someone posting a question and posting a suggestion intended for Microsoft. "Jezebel" wrote: It would more constructive to address these 'suggestions' to Microsoft, rather than berating the help forum with them. No doubt they will dismiss them as inane and pretentious, but there you go. "EricM" wrote in message ... The Compare and Merge Document function in word is almost useless. I create a wide variety of documents for the Navy for various systems being updated or developed. My Compare and Merge requirement is to to compare a new version of the document with an old version of the document and overlay the new information on to the old information. A simple AND or OR function is not going to be useful. My suggestion is to design the Compare and Merge Document function so that: 1. The function starts by matching up the paragraph or section headings of the opened doc's headings to fit the selected filename doc's headings and renumbering the opened doc's headings to match or fit within the selected file's headings. 2. The opened document is has priority over the selected file to compare and merge with for test replacement. The goal to achieve is to compare and merge the latest changes in order to update the existing document. Currently the compare and merge just seems to do an AND function. It deletes document portions where there is no text to compare and it simple combines the latest added words to the old text. Perhaps a way to achieve more versatility is to give the user an option list of AND, OR, NOR, Exclusive AND, etc. or possibly a sequential function selection of up to three. Say first to OR everything and save then to Exclusive AND etc. To accomplish that I described above. You could add in artificial intelligence programing to provide an option for a smart compare and merge where it asks the author a series of questions such as: Do you want to retain sections of text that have no matching test in the open document? (Y or N). This would enable the function of build a set of rules to perform the compare and merge and attain the authors goal. |
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