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Veronique has attended:
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Word Advanced course

Compare 2 documents

How to compare two documents and track their differences in case track changes are not showing?

RE: Compare 2 documents

Hi Veronique

Thank you for your question.

You can do this by:

1. Opening the newest/most recent version of the file (i.e. the one that has been edited).

2. Go to Tools - Compare and Merge documents, browse to and select the original (unedited) document.

3. Put a tick in the Legal blackline checkbox to the left of the Compare button.

4. Click Compare. A third document will open - provided you are looking at the Final showing Markup version of the document you will see what changes were made in the edited version from the original as the changes will show in comment balloons in the margin.

I hope this helps.
Amanda

 

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