Changing the settings for document review and comparison

You can change the settings used for comparing and reviewing documents. You can change the appearance of inserted text, deleted text, text that was moved, and redline text (WordPerfect Office pgx redline2 Changing the settings for document review and comparison). WordPerfect also lets you use margin ticks to indicate which lines of text have changed. You can also assign a marking character, and choose the margins in which to display them.


To change the appearance of inserted text

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Click File WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Document WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Compare.
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Click Settings WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Compare only.
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Click the Insertions tab.
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In the Appearance area, enable one or more of the following check boxes:
Bold
Italic
Underline
Double underline
Redline
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Open the Color picker, and click a color on the color palette.
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In the Enclose text with area, enable an option.

To change the appearance of deleted text

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Click File WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Document WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Compare.
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Click Settings WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Compare only.
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Click the Deletions tab.
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In the Appearance area, enable one or more of the following check boxes:
Bold
Italic
Underline
Double underline
Redline
Strikeout
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Open the Color picker, and click a color.
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In the Enclose text with area, enable an option.
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In the Show deleted text as area, enable one of the following options:
Full text — displays all of the deleted text
Abbreviated — displays a portion of the deleted text with ellipses
No text — hides the deleted text
Character — replaces the deleted text with a character of your choice

To change the appearance of moved text

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Click File WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Document WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Compare.
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Click Settings WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Compare only.
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Click the Moves tab.
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In the Show moves at area, enable one of the following options:
Both locations
New location
Don’t show moves
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Open the Color picker, and click a color.

To change the appearance of redline text

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Click File WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Document WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Redline method.
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Enable one of the following options:
Printer default setting — uses the redline method specific to your printer (usually a shaded background)
Mark left margin — uses redline markings in the left margin
Mark alternating margins — uses redline markings in the left margin for even-numbered pages and in the right margin for odd-numbered pages
Mark right margin — uses redline markings in the right margin

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In the Redline character box, you can specify the redline character you want to display. This option is not available when the Printer default setting option is enabled.

To display margin ticks for document review

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Click Document WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the settings for document review and comparison Review.
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Enable the Place marker in margin of lines with edited text check box.
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Enable one of the following options:
Mark left margin
Mark alternating margins
Mark right margin
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In the Marking character box, type the character to use as a margin tick.

Changing the settings for document review and comparison