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Comparing and combining documents

Comparing and combining documents - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Comparing and combining documents

We already know how useful tracking changes can be when collaborating on documents with others. It allows us to see the changes, choose to accept or reject those changes, but what happens if someone takes a copy of your document, and does not remember to turn on Track Changes, and they give you back their version of the document. Well, comparing the two documents could mean printing them out, highlighting areas, going into the original, making the adjustments, and so on. It could be very time-consuming. But the good news is there's a very powerful feature built right into Word that will compare documents for you. Not only that, if you choose to combine the two documents, you can have that done by Microsoft Word as well. We're going to look at both features; very powerful, yet rarely used. So we're going to start with a document called NO Recipes Original. Let's say our scenario is we have this document that we sent out to a couple of people for their review. They didn't turn on Track…

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