Ignoring MS Word Control(?) Strings

[aussieboykie]

When comparing two very similar versions of an MS Word document I often see some lines that look identical until viewed in Hex. Here's an example:

ASCII = +14 weeks

HEX-L = E2 80 8E 2B 31 34 20 77 65 65 6B 73 0D 0A
HEX-R = E2 80 8E 2B 31 34 20 77 65 65 6B 73 E2 80 8E 0D 0A

How do I tell BC3 to ignore E2 80 8E, which I assume to be some sort of MS Word control string? I followed the process described in this Knowledge Base article but it hasn't helped. The orphan E2 80 8E strings still appear as important (red) differences.

Regards, AB

[Aaron]

Hello,

Toggle on Show Visible Whitespace to see if it is considered the End of Line character or whitespace.

If you are still having trouble please email us at [email protected] with:
-a link to this forum post
-a pair of example files (with even just this line)
-your support.zip from the Help menu -> Support; Export

[aussieboykie]

Further investigation reveals that the choice of File Format has a part to play. The problem occurs if I'm using MS Word Documents Extended but not if I use MS Word Documents. It also appears to be related to the way that Word tables are converted to text. Using the Extended filter, each cell is output as a separate line whereas with the normal (built-in?) filter each table row is output as a single line of text.

Regards, AB

[Aaron]

I'm glad you were able to troubleshoot this issue.

Would you be able to send the sample files to [email protected] ? It may be an interesting test case for us to look at.

"
...please email us at [email protected] with:
-a link to this forum post
-a pair of example files (with even just this line)
-your support.zip from the Help menu -> Support; Export
"

[aussieboykie]

Unfortunately they are two versions of a confidential commercial document. When I have some spare time I'll see if I can extract sections that can be deidentified but still demonstrate the problem.

Regards, AB