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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Courtenay Inchbald [mailto:c@inchbald.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 26, 2016 12:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> Aarti Nankani <Aarti.Nankani@microsoft.com><br><b>Cc:</b> Rex Jaeschke <rex@rexjaeschke.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: DR 16-0014 — WML: RSID Issues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Aarti,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for your reply.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The product team's reply is true for the purposes of running a Combine or a Compare (although Word does not object to combining or comparing documents with different rsidRoots). However, I am using RSIDs for a different purpose in which RSIDs inherited from templates are important. If the note's scope is limited to Merge and Compare, it would be helpful to me to say so in ECMA-376. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Word does not follow the rule in the rsid definition, repeated in the note at the end of the definition, that RSIDs are generated from the date. It would be helpful to me to add this exception to MS-OE376. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Courtenay Inchbald </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>| T +44 20 8673 5640 | M +44 771 858 3535 | </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>54 Elmfield Road London SW17 8AL <b>| </b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue'><a href="mailto:c@inchbald.com" target="_blank">c@inchbald.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 19 October 2016 at 19:04, Aarti Nankani <<a href="mailto:Aarti.Nankani@microsoft.com" target="_blank">Aarti.Nankani@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Hello,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>For DR 16-0014 — WML: RSID Issues <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fonedrive.live.com%2Fview.aspx%2FPublic%2520Documents%2F2016%2FDR-16-0014.docx%3Fcid%3Dc8ba0861dc5e4adc&data=01%7C01%7Caarti.nankani%40microsoft.com%7C249e45d9201f4107502608d3f4e72502%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1&sdata=7LaqdpTHzYsrI%2FeM81xIx3Gc5natRXIQcqAD87W53rk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style='color:#44546A'>Link</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#44546A'>We have the following response from the product team. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#44546A'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#44546A'>If the RSIDRoot is different then you know nothing about the relationship between the two documents. Even if all of the other RSID’s are the same you still know nothing. It might be that Word copies the RSID list from the template into documents based on the template or it might not. But it doesn’t matter. By changing the RSIDRoot, Word is telling you that it would not be fruitful to run a merge between these two document assuming a common base.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#44546A'>Does this help clarify your question?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Aarti</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>