DocTools - ExtractChanges

We have partnered with MVP Lene Fredborg to bring you this add-in.

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This Word add-in lets you extract the tracked changes, insertions, deletions and comments from any Word document, in full context.
Using this add-in will reduce hours of work to seconds or minutes and make working with blacklining and redlining extremely easy.
This is the perfect time-saving tool for anyone who is editing and reviewing large contracts, specifications or similar type documents.

Powerful and unique capabilities

Extracts insertions, deletions, and comments - in full context - to a new document, including extra metadata such as page number, paragraph number, author, and revision date.
Export the extracted data to Excel in seconds to get access to Excel's sort and filter features.
Headings and subheadings are detected and extracted with the changes - even in poorly formatted Word documents.
You can extract changes and comments either from the entire document or from a selected part of the main text as you wish - you can even include revisions in headers, footers, footnotes, and endnotes.

You can compare two versions of a document and extract the differences in one operation.
You can batch extract changes and comments from all documents in a folder you select.
When batch extracting, you can collect all extract documents in one document in addition to the individual extract documents.
You can batch compare a specific document with all documents in a selected folder in one operation.
You can batch compare pairs of documents in one operation, based on a file.
You can change author names and remove or replace date stamps in tracked changes and comments.
You can extract changed sentences, ready for translation using translation software such as SDL Trados Studio.
You can customize several options in relation to the extract and the resulting document.

Introduction to Features

Track changes and comments are great features to use in the editing process of Word documents.
In documents with a lot of changes and comments, it can be impractical to work with the entire document during the review process.
This add-in lets you quickly and easily extract insertions, deletions, and comments from Word documents.
The extracted data (including additional metadata) will be listed in a table for easy overview.
The changes and comments are not just extracted:

• Insertions, deletions, and comments are shown in the extract document.

• Extracts insertions, deletions, and comments both from the main text of the document and from headers, footers, footnotes, and endnotes.

• You can extract changes and comments either from the entire document or from a selected part of the main text as you wish.

• Headings and subheadings are detected and extracted with the changes - even in poorly formatted Word documents.

• You can define whether rows with paragraphs found below the same set of headings are combined or kept as separate rows.

• You can compare two versions of a document and extract the differences in one operation.

• You can batch extract changes from all documents in a selected folder in one operation.

• When batch extracting, you can collect all extract documents in one document in addition to the individual extract documents.

• You can batch compare a specific document with all documents in a selected folder in one operation.

• You can batch compare pairs of documents in one operation, based on a file.

• You can export the data from an extract document to Excel in seconds and get access to Excel's sort and filter features.

• Special commands help you quickly create a file list to use for batch compare by pairs and other purposes.

• You can find a specific paragraph in the source document directly from the extract document with a single click of a button.

• You can change the author name in all tracked changes and comments or only in those made by a specific author.

• You can remove the date or change the date in the date stamps in all tracked changes and comments.

• You can extract changed sentences, ready for translation using translation software such as SDL Trados Studio.

• You can customize several options in relation to the extract and the resulting document.

• Index numbers and color shading are added to all comments to make it easy to see where each comment belongs.

• Supported file formats are doc, dot, docx, docm, dotx, dotm, rtf and xml.

• Works with Microsoft 365, Word 2024, Word 2021, Word 2019, Word 2016 and Word 2013 on PC.

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