Ignore White Space

This option determines if white space is compared in document compare. This corresponds to the option in the Compare dialog box ( Review ribbon | Compare | more options).

Supported on: At least Windows 7
Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Pathsoftware\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options
Value Namecompareignorewhitespace
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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