Convert a deltaview doc so that Word recognizes track changes

[Guest]

I was sent a Word documnet containing Deltaview marked changes which Word
does not recognize when trying to do track changes. Any suggestions to
solving this problem?

 

[Dawn Crosier]

Sorry, DeltaView marks the tracked changes as Word Styles. So
basically all that you have is formatted text. You can open the
Styles and Formatting Task pane, and start selecting all text which
shows as Deleted, and then delete them from the document. However, I
find that as a very tedious and labor intensive process.

My recommendation is to go back to the most recent Word document which
was used for comparison purposes and making the changes manually.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
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[gfineman]

Free Software to Solve the Problem

I am a lawyer who also had this same problem and wrote a macro program to do the tedious work of converting the styles. It is freeware and available at http://www.list-search.com/utilities.html
-Gabe Fineman
Washington, DC

 

[Christopher Rath]

I have written a VBA add-in for Word 2007 that converts DeltaView mark-up to MS Word tracked changes. See the "Convert DeltaView toTracked Changes" entry on my MS Word VBA tips page: http://rath.ca/Misc/VBA/VBA_Word.html

It's not perfect, but it converts the basic mark-up into changes. The add-in also works with Compare-Pro mark-up.

 

[JOrzech]

gfineman, I downloaded your macro and it worked like a charm! You just saved me hours of work... thanks so much! By the way, I've worked for lawyers since 1971 so you've truly helped someone in the legal field.

Best
Joanne