Re: Help! Software sugg. for eng. to do editing with

[Paul David Marvel <marvel -at- STRAUSS -dot- UDEL -dot- EDU>]

Dianne:

I just ran into a similar problem and solved it with WordPerfect's compare
document feature. Perhaps Word has the same functionality.

I had to compare design documents the team had edited for the latest
software release to the original documents to develop delta training.
With document compare, the computer displays deleted text with a line
through it and added text in red. The changes are easy to spot on line,
and they print as struck through (hmmm, that looks odd) and shaded text.

Good luck.

-paul
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Paul D. Marvel    marvel -at- brahms -dot- udel -dot- edu

On Thu, 11 May 1995, Dianne Driskell wrote:

> Somewhere back in my brain I remember the group covering this but, of course,
> I didn't save it because I didn't need it then.

> Problem: Engineers want to edit the text in soft (digital) copy.
> The writers  want to be able to see
> where the suggested changes were made and possibly
> have the changes ranked in some way (color of text?) to show if it's a
> very important correction or less important correction. I think they are using
> Word 6.0.

> Actually, the writers want the engineers to have only hard copy but that
> didn't fly.

> Software suggestions please!

> Dianne Driskell
> Publications Office
> Dept. of CS
> UT-Austin
> ddriskel -at- cs -dot- utexas -dot- edu