I have been looking around for this but couldn't find an answer anywhere, so hope aomeone here can help.
I am doing a WinForms application in C# in wich i use WordApplcation.CompareDocuments to compare two documents and get a result document with the changes marked as Revisions.
This works well and apart from the revisions hiding stuff inside textboxes (wich i don't care about just yet) i get exactly what i want.
So next step is to count how many words got revised - specifically wdRevisionDelete and wdRevisonInsert.
Only problem is final.Revisions is sometimes empty or contains enourmous amounts of data (over 500 words).
i read on the MSDN page for Revisions.Count that document.Revisions won't show all revisions but only ones on main story and that i must use range - but that didn't help.
here's my current code:
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
And
foreach (Word.Section s in final.Sections)
{
foreach (Word.Revision r in s.Range.Revisions)
{
counter += r.Range.Words.Count;
if (r.Type == Word.WdRevisionType.wdRevisionDelete)
delcnt += r.Range.Words.Count;
if (r.Type == Word.WdRevisionType.wdRevisionInsert)
inscnt += r.Range.Words.Count;
}
}
final is the Word Document created by WordApplication.CompareDocuments
So, as i said, and according to MSDN, i use range.Revision instead of document.Revision, and go section by section.
Only one document with half a dozen revisions shows none while others show 100's.
So my question is, how to use the Revisions to count added / deleted words.
I have opened the documents that CompareDocuments creates in Word 2007 and the Revisions are correctly marked and can be accepted or rejected inside Word
Any ideias on what i might be overlooking?
EDIT: I have noticed something odd - when i try to save as txt file the original doc files that are reporting 0 changes although the CompareDocuments marks (correctly) a few, i notice that not all pages get saved to the txt file - that includes all areas with revisions.
I tried converting to txt file using both Word 2007 and LibreOffice 3.3 - both have the same result (lot's of text missing).
Might be related somehow.
Wonder what is wrong with this files.
Any ideas?