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Compare and Merge documents - deletions & insertions both show asinsertions
When I use Compare and Merge documents, all the text that should show
up as deletions (text in the old document that is not in the new one) are showing up as insertions instead. I can't distinguish between the insertions and the deletions. When I change the designated colors of deletions, they show up with whatever color or format I designate for insertions. What's going on? This used to work fine in our previous version of Word, when it used to be called Compare Documents. If I turn on Tracking and add fresh changes, the fresh changes are in the proper colors. I posted the same problem on March 10, but I lost interest because it temporarlily started working again. Nowadays it almost never works. On Mar 10, 3:36 pm, Dan Williams wrote: When I compare/merge two documents, all the parts that should show up as deletions are showing up as insertions instead. I can't distinguish between the insertions and the deletions. When I change the colors of insertions and deletes, they both show up with whatever color or format I designate for insertions. What's going on? I don't remember whether I've seen it working properly or not since we switched to Word 2003. It used to work fine in the previous version of Word, when it used to be called Compare Documents. Word 2003 Windows 2001 Dan Williams danwPlanet I also see that someone else posted the problem last August and got no replies. On Aug 15 2008, 5:38 pm, RSunday wrote: I have two almost identical documents. To find the difference I do a "Compare and Merge document" in tools. Normally deletions would show up in red striketrough and inserts in underlined blue (because I have set it like that). But somehow everything show up as "inserts" - also the text elemets that have been deleted. It does not help to change the sequence of my documents (which one I open first or use to show my changes). I have made two very simple documents for testing - here it shows up correctly. But in my real documents it doesn't work. I have tried to remove all formatting from both documents - but with no effect. When I insert the contents of my test documents in my real documents - suddenly these changes also all show up as inserts... Any suggestions? Word 2003 Windows xp Dan Williams danwPlanet |
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