Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Plain & Simple

Comparing Changes in a Document

If you have two versions of the same document, and changes have been made but not marked in one of them, how do you know what changes were made? Using Word’s Compare feature, you can compare the original with the revised document and have Word mark all the changes.

Set Up the Comparison

1. On the Review tab, click the Compare button and, in the gallery that appears, choose Compare to display the Compare Documents dialog box.

2. Specify the original document by clicking either the down arrow to see a list of recently used documents ...