Friday, 9 April 2010

Deltaview Style Removal Tool

There are occasions when some Deltaview styles (Deltaview Insertion, Deltaview Comment etc) and/or Deltaview bookmarks are left in a document. This software tool takes a Word document file and removes all the Deltaview styles and all the Deltaview bookmarks. It will also work as a command line tool with an entire directory.

Notice that it can also be used on a redline document.

The executable (in a zip file) can be downloaded here

The program consists of one dialog. Drag, browse to, or type in the path of the file you want cleaned. Note that a DMS is not supported.

The output file edit box will fill in with the name of the file, plus "_DV_Removed" added to its name. This can be changed to another name/path.
There is a check box for viewing the document after cleaning, and a check box for turning any redline text into track changes. These are self explanatory.

Also, the program can be used on a command line which can deal with whole directories at once! The format of the command line is as such:

RemoveDeltaViewStyles /path "C:\StylesBeGone\DirectoryOfStuff" /appendtext "DV_Removed" /v /s

Where:

path - the directory of files to be cleaned,

appendtext - the text to add onto the file name, eg redline.doc with "DV_Removed" becomes redline_DV_Removed.doc

/v - silent mode (no dialogs or warnings at all)

/s - suppress all errors

File names which already exist will have (N) added, eg redline_DV_Removed(1).doc

This program is compatible with DeltaView and Workshare Compare.

1 comments:

  1. Wow. This tool is fantastic. It's saved me lots of time cleaning up documents where a client edits the redline using Track Changes.

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