Perform a word by word comparison of two paragraphs.

[Neil in Washington]

I have a proofreading excersize going on between source PDF files and the HTML output from a conversion task. Right now we are using Writer to compare the two documents by copying a corresponding section of text from each and pasting them into Writer, then using our Mark1 Calibrated Eyeball to find any differences.

There's GOT to be a better way!

Is there a macro already written to read the two paragraphs/sections and compare them for us? I'm thinking in terms of a document merge, which does the same thing but on a document level. I have a guy who is trying to write a macro to do this, but I'm thinking that there should already be a valid tool for this.

Any ideas
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[pitonyak]

Compare document seems like the best way to go, but if you want to do it in your own macro, then you will need to write the macro yourself. Jump through word by word and compare along the way!
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[Neil in Washington]

As I understand the way a document compare works, it would involve too much overhead to do it that way. Kyle is making excellent headway, and I'm sure he'll have it working soon.

Thanks.
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