Merge documents - Word 2002

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Dave

This is NOT a "mail merge" question. My question refers
to the "Compare and Merge documents" feature is Word
2002... Can this feature be disabled?? Our Electronic
Document Management System techs expect much confusion
with this "feature". Any help would be much
appreciated. Thanks.
 
You can certainly remove it from the menus. Disabling it would be on a
completely different level of complexity. Tools => Customize.

The customization can be built into a global template and put in each user's
Word startup folder. It sounds as if your "techs" need to learn a bit more
about Word -- fast!
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Charles Kenyon

See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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By "completely different level of complexity", do you
mean editing the Registry? If so, could you please
detail the process. Much appreciated. Thanks.
 
No, I mean writing macros to intercept the commands involved or editing Word
itself.

If you remove it from the menus, the only way someone is going to be able to
access it is to (a) add it back to the menu, (b) use Tools => Macros => Word
Commands and then find the right command, or (c) write (not record) a macro
to call it. Are any of your users likely to be doing this?

Intercept macros could be defeated by (b) or (c), I believe. Editing Word is
way beyond my abilities and would probably be illegal.

You might (1) write a corporate policy prohibiting use of the compare
document feature and (2) write an intercept procedure which blocks and logs
such attempts (leaving the command on your menus). You might also consider
getting different consultants who can work with the Word processing program
you've chosen.

You might call on your MS support contract to see if you can get a registry
hack that will do this. I don't know of any, but I'm generally ignorant of
registry hacks.
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Charles Kenyon

See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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