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    WSRichard Ingram
    AskWoody Lounger
    February 22, 2002 at 5:04 pm #367225

    I’m attempting to compare two documents, showing the deleted text with strikeout and inserted text in red. This was easy to do with Word 97, but I can find no way through the normal dialog boxes to do the same in Word 2002.

    Does anybody have any suggestions?

    Thanks

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    • WSsjtmiller
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 22, 2002 at 6:03 pm #571956

      With your revised document on the screen, go to Tools > Compare and Merge Documents, select your original document. You probably want to check the box for Legal Blacklining (the compare formatting check box can be nice), and then click on Compare.

      You can turn off the balloons if you don’t want them. If you send the resulting document to someone without Word 2002, the balloons will not be present in the document when they open it.

      Hope that helps.

      SJ Miller

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      • WSRichard Ingram
        AskWoody Lounger
        February 23, 2002 at 2:24 pm #572092

        That doesn’t do the job. It highlights both deletions and additions with the same red text. There is no differentiation between them. In Word 97, you could use seperate fonts for additions and deletions.

        Thanks

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        • WSsjtmiller
          AskWoody Lounger
          February 25, 2002 at 1:53 pm #572390

          Is it showing the deletions as red strikethrough and insertions as red underline?

          I’m presuming you’ve checked the settings from Tools > Options > Track Changes.

          sj miller

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          • WSRichard Ingram
            AskWoody Lounger
            February 25, 2002 at 2:05 pm #572391

            Yes, it can show insertions as red underline, but what I’m trying to do–without doing a global search and replace–is to show the deletions as black strikethrough.

            Thanks

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            • WSsjtmiller
              AskWoody Lounger
              February 25, 2002 at 4:41 pm #572422

              Richard:

              Here’s the bad news:

              According to “Word 2002 for Law Firms” by Payne Consulting, p. 487:

              “With the introduction of Markup balloons, Word 2002 no longer offers an option for how deleted text is displayed. In Print Layout or Web Layout views, deleted text appears in Markup balloons. In Normal or Outline views, it is shown with strikethrough formatting.”

              Even though this isn’t the solution you want….

              sj miller

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            • WSRichard Ingram
              AskWoody Lounger
              February 25, 2002 at 7:29 pm #572463

              Sigh…I’ll always have Word 97 around to fall back on for this type of request.

              Thanks.

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