Problems with compare and merge document command

[mikelinen]

I am currently working in Word 2003, and having a person edit my work.
The person has Word 97. After she makes the edits and sends them back
to me, her changes look fine in her doc (I open her doc in Word 2003),
but when I compare and merge her edited doc back into my baseline doc
the merge is incorrect. Portions of deleted text remain adjacent to the
new replacement text. For example if she capitalized the word "table",
in my merged doc in now says "tTable".

She is working with track changes on. Her changes look fine in her doc
on my computer when opened in Word 2003 (both as tracked changes and as
a final doc). It's only after the merge that all hell breaks loose.

Thoughts on this appreciated.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Mikelinen,

This may be a problem with the different versions, but...

First you MUST accept/reject all her changes in her document before you
try to merge it with yours. The "Compare and Merge" feature does not work
correctly if you try to use it on a document that contains unresolved
changes.

I am currently working in Word 2003, and having a person edit my work.
The person has Word 97. After she makes the edits and sends them back
to me, her changes look fine in her doc (I open her doc in Word 2003),
but when I compare and merge her edited doc back into my baseline doc
the merge is incorrect. Portions of deleted text remain adjacent to the
new replacement text. For example if she capitalized the word "table",
in my merged doc in now says "tTable".

She is working with track changes on. Her changes look fine in her doc
on my computer when opened in Word 2003 (both as tracked changes and as
a final doc). It's only after the merge that all hell breaks loose.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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