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MS Word Repetition Function

  • 12-04-2012 02:37PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I am about to submit my thesis for review but I'm not 100% sure whether small sections of the thesis may repeat themselves, e.g. one sentence here and there. My question is: does MS Word (2007 or 2010) provide the functionality to run through the document and highlight where repetition occurs? :confused:

    Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.

    Thanks.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭FSL


    I think Word will only check for repeated words not sentences.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Humans are still better at some things

    if at all possible get someone else to proof read all work before you hand it up


    http://a4apphack.com/featured/tricks-with-notepad

    cut/paste all text into notepad++


    not too sure if you'd have to remove line feeds , carriage returns from the pasted text - ie. you want to convert all whitespace into a single space and remove punctuation.


    Edit > Blank operations > EOL to space
    Edit > Blank operations > Remove leading and trailing space

    then change all full stops to carriage returns - choose extended , \n
    or semicolons or whatever you use your self



    Plugins -> Plugin Manager -> Show Plugin Manager -> Available tab -> TextFX -> Install.

    then in TextFX Tools you can sort , count the lines, then sort unique to see if different


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