Compare: Multiple Flows with same name

Donald M Rinderknecht Donald.M.Rinderknecht at noaa.gov
Wed Aug 18 19:55:53 PDT 2010


Aha!

The ol' flow on a reference page trick! That was it.

Thanks, Shlomo.

Don.

Shlomo Perets wrote:
> Don,
>
> You wrote:
>
>> I guess it's my day for Frame questions....
>>
>> Seeing this in both FM8 and FM9.
>>
>> I'm comparing two docs that I KNOW are different. When I run the
>> Compare utility, I get a dialog that says there are multiple Flows
>> with the same name ('A') and the flows will be ignored. The compare
>> comes back as the two files being identical.
>>
>> When I try to look for the multiple flows, I only see one. Any advice
>> on finding the multiple flows of the same name?
>
>
> When I encountered a similar message, the problem had to do with the 
> "A" flow present in text frames on the reference page(s) of the 
> documents being compared (which is of no practical significance and 
> should have been ignored for document comparison purposes).
>
> Try locating such text frames in Reference pages and modify accordingly.
>
>
> Shlomo Perets
>
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