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Large Document comparison problems (attempt 2 :)
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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If you need text markup, try saving both files as plain text copies and run
the comparison on those. Word's document comparison capabilities are not all that great, at one time Microsoft recommended using third-party software for complex documents. See http://addbalance.com/usersguide/track_changes.htm. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Roscoe" wrote in message ups.com... 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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I appreciate the effort but you will notice in para 2) in my original
post I already tried that. |
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