This section describes the options available in the SoDA Generator Dialog box. For more on document generation, see Generating a Document.
When you mark this check box, SoDA will examine the document to see what needs to be added, changed, or deleted, and will generate a report, but will not change the existing document.
Mark the Add Change Bars check box to highlight changed text in the generated document. Change bars are similar to the notation used in the Microsoft Word "Track Changes/Changed lines" option. The change bars appear in the left margin where changes have been made as a result of the generation process. The change bars can be turned off using Word’s Revisions command.
Note: If you turn change bars "on" during the first generation of a document, the entire document will be generated with change bars.
If you mark the Report Changes check box, SoDA will create a Microsoft Word document showing the changes that were made to the document during generation. The Report Changes document opens in Microsoft Word. It has a default "Document #" name. To retain the document, save it using an appropriate name and location.
This check box specifies how obsolete text resulting from regenerating your document is to be presented in the document. Obsolete text generally results from a deleted object in the information source.
SoDA may also find an object "deleted" if that object has been moved. For example, if your document extracts all of the files in a particular directory, and one of those files is moved to another directory, SoDA will consider that object deleted.
Because an object may be moved by accident (and not deleted), SoDA allows you to leave "deleted" text in your document. This allows you to edit a link to point to a moved object’s new location or modify a query to compensate for some other change in the information source.
SoDA gives you two choices for handling obsolete sections. The default method is to "hide" the section by applying the Hidden font attribute to the text. If you check Permanently Delete Obsolete Section, SoDA deletes any sections, text, and graphics associated with a deleted, missing, or moved object in the information source. This includes all children of a deleted section and their children.
Warning: This is not reversible. Removed text is permanently deleted from your document and must be recreated manually.