Compare Documents

[Jeff]

I want to compare two Word 2002 documents using the Compare method of the
Document object. This works fine except that it ignores differences in
shapes. Is there any way to know that the shape has changed?

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "Jeff" <[email protected]>,

Hah! Nice try, not possible. See, until we got the drawing canvas,
Shapes only participate in ranges - streams of content - with their
anchor - a property of the anchor. If the anchor doesn't change,
neither does the range see a change occurring, thus no revision.

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technical answer together for everyone.


Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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