Comparing documents w/ large tables

[Peter Gold]

esangalang at micron.com wrote:
> We are trying to use Frame's document comparison utility to see before
> and after text side by side in the same document. It works great until
> it reaches our tables, when it just puts the old table and the new table
> in. The problem is that inserting/deleting a row/column causes the rest
> of the cells to move. Frame apparently does cell by cell comparison in
> tables, so the shift in cell location makes it appear that more than 75%
> of the table has changed, whereupon it considers the whole table
> replaced. Does anyone know of a plug-in that can detect when a row is
> inserted (or deleted) and factor that into the comparison? 
>
>   

Have you tried converting the tables to text before comparing the documents?

HTH
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Peter Gold
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