How to compare two word documents

Как сравнить два документа Word

Данный параметр позволяет сравнить два документа и вывести на экран только несовпадающие фрагменты. Сравниваемые документы не изменяются. При таком способе сравнения различия между документами всегда отображаются в новом, третьем документе.

Если нужно сравнить исправления, сделанные несколькими рецензентами, не следует использовать данный параметр. Выберите команду Объединение исправлений от нескольких авторов в одном документе.

Откройте документы, которые нужно сравнить.

На вкладке Рецензирование в группе Сравнить нажмите кнопку Сравнить.

Выберите пункт Сравнение двух версий документа (юридическое примечание).

В поле Исходный документ укажите документ, который будет использоваться в качестве исходного.

В поле Измененный документ выберите документ, который нужно сравнить с уже открытым документом.

Щелкните Больше, а затем укажите параметры сравнения документов. Рядом с Показывать изменения выберите отображение изменений на уровне знаков или на уровне слов.

Если результаты сравнения не требуется выводить в третьем документе, укажите документ, в котором должны быть отображены изменения.

Важно: Все параметры, выбранные в разделе Больше, будут использоваться по умолчанию при последующем сравнении документов.

Нажмите кнопку ОК.

Если какая-либо из версий документа содержит записанные исправления, на экране отобразится соответствующее сообщение. Чтобы принять исправления и сравнить документы, нажмите кнопку Да.

Откроется новый документ, в котором будут приняты исправления, записанные в исходном документе, а изменения, отмеченные во втором из сравниваемых документов, отобразятся в виде исправлений.

Compare and merge two versions of a document

You can compare two versions of a document to see how they differ. You can also merge two versions of the same document into one new document. In both cases, Word shows the differences with revision marks.

Do either of the following:

Compare two versions of a document

Open one of the two versions of the document that you want to compare.

On the Tools menu, point to Track Changes, and then click Compare Documents.

In the Original document list, select the original document.

In the Revised document list, browse to the other version of the document, and then click OK.

Changes from the revised copy are merged into a new copy that is based on the original version of the document. The original copy remains untouched. Revision marks show any differences introduced by the revised copy of the document.

Tip: To change document comparison settings or the level of detail shown, on the Tools menu, point to Track Changes, click Compare Documents, and then click .

Merge two versions of a document

Open one of the two versions of the document that you want to merge.

On the Tools menu, click Combine Documents.

In the Original document list, select one version of the document.

In the Revised document list, browse to the other version of the document, and then click OK.

Changes from the revised copy are merged into a new copy that is based on the original version of the document. The original copy remains untouched. Revision marks show any differences introduced by the revised copy of the document.

Do either of the following:

Compare two versions of a document

Open one of the two versions of the document that you want to compare.

On the Tools menu, point to Track Changes, and then click Compare Documents.

Note: If the Compare Documents option is not available, the document might be protected. To unprotect a protected document, on the Tools menu, click Unprotect Document.

On the Original document pop-up menu, select the original document.

On the Revised document pop-up menu, browse to the other version of the document, and then click OK.

Changes from the revised copy are merged into a new copy that is based on the original copy of the document. The original copy remains untouched. Revision marks show any differences introduced by the revised copy of the document.

Tip: To change document comparison settings or the level of detail shown, on the Tools menu, point to Track Changes, click Compare Documents, and then click .

Merge two versions of a document

Open one of the two versions of the document that you want to merge.

On the Tools menu, click Merge Documents.

On the Original document pop-up menu, select one version of the document.

On the Revised document pop-up menu, browse to the other version of the document, and then click OK.

Compare document differences using the legal blackline option

The legal blackline option compares two documents and displays only what changed between them. The documents that are being compared are not changed. The legal blackline comparison is displayed by default in a new third document.

If you want to compare changes from a number of reviewers, do not select this option. Choose Combine revisions from multiple authors into a single document instead.

Open the documents that you want to compare.

On the Review tab, in the Compare group, click Compare.

Click Compare two versions of a document (legal blackline).

Under Original document, browse for the document that you want to use as the original document.

Under Revised document, browse for the other document that you want to compare.

Click More, and then select the settings for what you want to compare in the documents. Under Show changes, choose whether you want to show character or word level changes.

If you do not want to display changes in a third document, choose which document you want the changes to appear in.

Important: Any options that you select under More will be the default options for comparison the next time you compare documents.

If either version of the document has tracked changes, Microsoft Word displays a message box. Click Yes to accept the changes and compare the documents.

Microsoft Office Word displays a new third document in which tracked changes in the original document are accepted, and changes in the revised document are shown as tracked changes.

The source documents that are being compared are not changed.

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Businesses Analyst from my team keeps sending us the updated Requirements documents often and I end up hunting the recent changes by comparing the old version. Is their a good way of comparing the Word documents?

Note: We have the track changes option ON, but now the documents looks like a blood bath, complicating it much more 🙁

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Use this option in Word 2003:

Tools | Compare and Merge Documents

Or this in Word 2007:

It prompts you for a file with which to compare the file you’re editing.

I use TortoiseMerge with the xdocdiff plugin to compare Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF versioned files

If you have Beyond Compare, you can diff two word documents with the help of some rules that you have to download from the developer’s site and plugin. It’ll then give you a text-only (without formatting) view (with some word format-gibberish that you can ignore. The differences will be highlighted and easy to find.

I made a note on how to do it here. It talks about Excel but there is a rule for Word in the same place.

If you don’t have Beyond Compare. buy it! Highly recommended.. I’d struggle without it.

Codejacked covers three different methods on how to compare word documents.

You’re using the wrong tools. Through the course of my last major project, we managed to convince the entire team to move to a Wiki scheme. Not only did it make tracking changes faster and easier, but it helped organize the information better. Rather than having to keep track of arbitrary indexes in a large text document, hyperlinks were available between documents.

This meant that the documents could naturally flow from high-level to specifics. Implementation of such specs was incredibly easy in comparison to Word docs. Also, the fact that the docs were in a central location ensured that no one was still working from an out of date copy they saved to their hard drive.

I know there can be some internal resistance to moving in new directions. But if you can convince your colleagues that they should be forward thinking and always challenging themselves, they’ll give it a shot and become true believers in no time flat. 🙂

How To Compare Two Word Documents and Find Differences

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Comparing documents for differences is a tedious process, but you can check for difference between 2 word document easily.

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Follow this tutorial to see how it can be done.

Step2. Goto Review –> Compare ( Select “Compare”, Compare 2 versions of document. )

provide the path to both the documents and press “OK”.

You will show the difference between the documents alongside with the original documents in small panes.The differences will be shown as striked of lines, in the middle pane, making it easy for viewing the difference.

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Thank you so much for this tip, it really helped me out. 🙂

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really helpful article..
btw can you tell me how to see percentage wise similarity of two word documents?

Tks, really helped!

Thanks for this. Awesome tool. Nice that they include it in Word.

Thank you! Dint know that Word had this feature.. its awesome!

Helpful…
Thank u.

Very useful… Thank you.

Just what I needed – thanks!

Many thanks for this tip. I was starting to despair as I had a couple of huge legal contracts to compare, and I thought either I would have to do it manually or ask the lawyers to do it a huge expense!

Really helpful.For legal documents.

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really helpful and easiest way to compare the documnt

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Worked out amazingly. It saved my time @ great extent.
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Hi, thank you so much for this tip. I have one question. How do I know which of the coloured text in the new version was in the first document but not in the second one and which was in the second one and not in the first?

Hi. Thank you for this tip. Could you please let me know how can I know which lines were in the first document but not in the second and which were in the second but not in the first one?

Very Useful, thanks

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May I ask a question, my MS word 2010 only show the compared version; do not show the 2 file (original and revised)?

How can I see all of them?

how do I reopen the Original and Revised Document Panes once they close? I can’t seem to reopen them once I close the document and reopen it

@ Sara – June 10, 2016 at 11:02 pm

Just to the right of the Compare button (at least, in 2007) is a button marked ‘Show Source Documents.’ Click that button and choose the fourth option – ‘Show Both.’ As you can see, you can also choose to show only the original or revised or neither. Clicking the X to close either of them, changes the option in the ‘Show Source Documents menu.

For goodness’ sake, save this hint somewhere you’ll find it again – if you’re like me and only occasionally close one or other pane, you’ll probably find yourself months from now, scratching your head and going, “How did I do that again. ’

I had been using online tools to do this comparison, Thanks for the information.

Thanks..Its really helpful.

I have i need to comparing two documents.In first document consider as original document and second document consider as our typed document and compare first and second documents.The different text in second document text will be highlighted with color. I am not getting any idea about this can anyone suggest me how to do this comparison in asp.net web applications. please can anyone help me out.

Thank you very much, it saved my time a lot.
happy to say thank you to you.

Thanks for the information sharing,

I have question about some words, such as; Fine, can I say Sth1. more fine than Sth.2
means comparing between 2 things; or Sth.1 finer than Sth2.
**Sth.= Something***

Thanks a lot for your guidance and it’s really help me as well as great help to others.

Hello – any advice as to how to remove document protection to allow me to compare two documents? I’ve gone through trust centre and disabled the editing options – but I keep getting the same error re document protection being in effect? There is no password encryption on either document. Tks!!

great help! thank you!

Hello I have both documents open and have checked that there are no protections but when I click ok after selecting Compare Document etc. my error message is “You cannot merge these documents because document protection is in effect”

Thanks for the info and post 🙂

Really help me! Thank you.

Very helpful, thanks a lot

This compare was not helpful at all. It shows pages and pages of DELETED …INSERTED….. DELETED … INSERTED. i presume because I copy/pasted over entire sections at one time. That is not the POINT of a simple compare. I don’t care how they came to be. I simply want to compare 2 documents as they exist right now and tell me the differences — as if neither document had a history.

Is there a way to check two word documents, and see if they have exact same sentence?

extremely useful. thanks a lot.

Really easy and effective, Thanks much!

great hint! did not even know this function(s) exists in Word – Thanks a lot!

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