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DocXtools Fills the Gaps in Native Word Compare Gaps in Word Compare How DocXtools Fills the Gap Integration with the Document Management System Comparisons are launched from the DMS and the resulting compare output needs to be saved back to the DMS. Word lacks this form of DMS integration making the workflow cumbersome and difficult. DocXtools adds the full suite of DMS integration to Microsoft Word Compare. Using DocXtools you can: Right-click compare from within the DMS Browse to the DMS from the compare dialog Save the redline back to the DMS as an attachment, related document, new version or new document Reporting on Compare Statistics Comparisons are launched from the DMS and the resulting compare output needs to be saved back to the DMS. Word lacks this form of DMS integration making the workflow cumbersome and difficult. DocXtools offers a detail and a summary report that can either be automatically added to the compare output or produced separately Configurable Rendering Sets Rendering sets allow users to customize the visual presentation of deleted, inserted, formatted and moved revisions. Using Word, you can customize these, but can’t save them in sets to easily choose when your client prefers a different presentation. DocXtools offers the ability to configure and Word-based multiple comparison schemes / rendering sets allowing the user to choose which one they prefer. Handling Legacy Result Documents If a firm decides to use Word as its exclusive document comparison platform, all the resulting documents from the previous comparison product are frozen and repurposing them into changes documents is nearly impossible. We strongly discourage repurposing redlines or compare documents from third-party vendors. The redline document is likely no longer in an original Word format and bringing it back to native Word is a round trip that has a tendency to cause unwanted problems later in the document lifecycle. However, if this is a practice the firm employs, retaining a license or two of the legacy software should accommodate this occasional need. Gaps in Word Compare How DocXtools Fills the Gap Email the Compare Package Word can email the active document through its “Send” command, but the collection of compare documents, the original, revised and output result cannot be sent together from Word. The DocXtools interface provides the integration to send the original; revised, compare output and / or reports in Word and/or PDF format.
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