Comparing and combining documents

In this topic, you will learn how to compare different versions of a document and combine revisions from multiple authors.

If two reviewers receive the exact copy of a document with changes made to both, the documents can be compared using the Compare Documents utility. This feature takes two documents that have gone through the editing process and combines only what has changed between them into a new third document. The two original documents are not changed.

Note

Please note that if you are working with edited documents from more than two reviewers, then Combine revisions from multiple authors into a single document is the option to use.

In the next steps, we will learn how to Compare documents.

1. Open the first document to be used to compare with another. Here, we will open Resume1Furkidds.docx.
2. Select Review | Compare, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.46 – The Compare...