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Re: Tool for comparing sentences in two documents?
Subject:Re: Tool for comparing sentences in two documents? From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:38:29 -0500
Gelius Henrik wrote:
>
> Thank you for all the tips! I've tried the Compare Documents feature in
> Word XP but it just hangs my computer. The WinMerge and ExamDiff programs
> doesn't do the right thing either as I don't want to compare the documents
> to each other, just find sentences that are the same. My best option to find
> sentences from Document1 scattered around in Document2 seems to be to write
> a Word Macro like David suggests.
>
there used to be a program called compar rite [sp] Also the document
compare feature in WordPerfect is pretty good.
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