Showing posts with label ms word 2007 compare documents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ms word 2007 compare documents. Show all posts

Monday, September 12, 2011

Comparing two MS Office Word 2007 documents

Today I discovered the most useful feature of Microsoft Office Word 2007: Compare!

When tasked with the challenge of comparing two versions of a lengthy legal document, to determine what changed, I thought for sure I was doomed to read side by side print outs (or on screen displays), or install some tool that would require converting to ascii (and then I could use 'diff', for Unix's sake!).

But Microsoft bless, I found one reason to really like Microsoft today, and that feature is called Compare.

Enough blithering, here's how it works:
Open MS Word
Choose Review > Compare
compare two versions of a single document (legal blackline)
Select the original and revised documents.

And, as if by Microsoft Magic, you'll have a list of changes between the documents.



Open MS Word 2007,