Change the report title to the following format: Document Name (Language) (HTML left Word right).

Make sure the following settings are selected.

Press F7 and click on the corresponding line on the right side to realign the content.

Click into the start of the misaligned line on the left side.

When text is misaligned, it can be realigned in two simple steps: Fixing text misalignmentīeyond Compare automatically aligns text content for comparison, but it isn’t perfect. These false positives can be ignored.īeyond Compare will not identify formatting differences (i.e. Sometimes, Beyond Compare will identify false positives for differences in whitespace, bullets, or for invisible text the web team adds for accessibility purposes.

Yellow highlights indicate sections of the line containing an important difference.

Cyan highlights indicate a line that contains an important difference.

The web team uses the following colour settings to identify differences when comparing documents:

If the Source Word document contains footnotes Footnote 1, double click into the footer of the document, and paste the footnotes into the right side of the Beyond Compare session and after the main content.Copy all of the text from the Source Word document and paste it into the right side of the Beyond Compare session.Copy all of the text from the converted HTML Word document and paste it into the left side of the Beyond Compare session.Skip this step if you have already imported the settings. In the top menu bar, select Tools and import the Web Team’s Beyond Compare settings.Open Beyond Compare and create a new text compare session by clicking on the Text Compare icon.Now we can see the HTML as raw text ready for Beyond Compare. In the Convert file modal window, select “HTML Document”.Go to File > Open > Browse and open the HTML Document using Microsoft Word.Make sure “ Confirm file format conversion on open” is checked, and select OK. Open Microsoft Word and go to File > Options > Advanced and scroll to the General section.Input the URL of the page in the text box and click on the “Scrape from url input” button to download the HTML file.Ĭonverting HTML into text with Microsoft Word.

Go to the webpage scraper in the Web Team’s utility page.This method might be used on pages that contain math or multiple script editors. Copy the HTML Source content and paste it into a new Dreamweaver document.Select Edit Source to view the HTML Source.Click anywhere in the page body content to open the Format Text menu.Select Edit in the upper right corner of the webpage.Skip to the next section if starting from an HTML document. OSFI Webpage (Sharepoint) or HTML Document.

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