Comparing Word documents

[Mike]

I inherited some Word VBA code to format a report based on rtf output
from DOORS. I made some changes to the VBA to improve performance (it
used to run for more than hour) and now I would like to compare the
Word document produced from the latest version with a Word document
produced from the previous version of the Word VBA macros.

I am running Microsoft Office Word 2003. I opened the more recent
copy, and then:
1. pulled down Tools-->Compare and Merge documents...
2. checked the "Legal Blackline" checkbox
3. selected the baseline word document produced under the old macro
set
4. clicked on "Compare"

The only differences that showed up was that every row of the main
table is black-barred with (on each page) a change box pointing at the
header saying "Formatted Table".

When I move my mouse over the "Formatted Table" change box it says
"Author formatted Table:"

Any clue what this is trying to tell me? The contents look fine
otherwise.

--Thank you,
--Mike Jr.

 

[Jonathan West]

I inherited some Word VBA code to format a report based on rtf output
from DOORS. I made some changes to the VBA to improve performance (it
used to run for more than hour) and now I would like to compare the
Word document produced from the latest version with a Word document
produced from the previous version of the Word VBA macros.

I am running Microsoft Office Word 2003. I opened the more recent
copy, and then:
1. pulled down Tools-->Compare and Merge documents...
2. checked the "Legal Blackline" checkbox
3. selected the baseline word document produced under the old macro
set
4. clicked on "Compare"

The only differences that showed up was that every row of the main
table is black-barred with (on each page) a change box pointing at the
header saying "Formatted Table".

When I move my mouse over the "Formatted Table" change box it says
"Author formatted Table:"

Any clue what this is trying to tell me? The contents look fine
otherwise.

There is probably some minor difference between the two versions in the way
that tables are formatted, or possibly the text within the tables. It is
presumably something normally invisible, such as "Keep With Next" paragraph
setting being different, or the table with being specified in percent rather
than cm, or something like that. Provided you are happy that the table looks
the same, you almost certainly needn't worry.