Tips and Tricks - Comparing Word Documents.
Category Tips and Tricks
If your organization has a document library of any kind that shares documents for reading and editing, it can become hard to find out where the last changes were made and if anything was omitted completely. There is a tool called track changes that helps, but people forget to use it in the same way they forgot to turn on auto-save before a big computer crash. Here is a good solution that will prevent you from intensely analyzing a document to find out what is different from its original version:
- In Word 2003 - Go to Tools > "Compare and Merge Documents"
- In Word 2007 - Go to the Review tab and select "Compare" or "Combine"
The Word 2007 option will provide a dialog box (see above) in which you specify the original document and the more recent one. The result will be an interface that shows where all text was moved, edited, deleted or added. This proves to be a valuable tool to many users, especially after the slight learning curve when deciphering the way the changes are displayed for heavily-modified documents.
If your organization has a document library of any kind that shares documents for reading and editing, it can become hard to find out where the last changes were made and if anything was omitted completely. There is a tool called track changes that helps, but people forget to use it in the same way they forgot to turn on auto-save before a big computer crash. Here is a good solution that will prevent you from intensely analyzing a document to find out what is different from its original version:
- In Word 2003 - Go to Tools > "Compare and Merge Documents"
- In Word 2007 - Go to the Review tab and select "Compare" or "Combine"
The Word 2007 option will provide a dialog box (see above) in which you specify the original document and the more recent one. The result will be an interface that shows where all text was moved, edited, deleted or added. This proves to be a valuable tool to many users, especially after the slight learning curve when deciphering the way the changes are displayed for heavily-modified documents.
Comments
Posted by computer repair At 10:43:55 PM On 07/28/2009 | - Website - |