How to compare two word documents?

ms-word office-2003
reva picture reva · Sep 18, 2008 · Viewed 38.5k times · Source

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 :(

Answer

Nathan Fellman picture Nathan Fellman · Sep 18, 2008

Use this option in Word 2003:

Tools | Compare and Merge Documents

Or this in Word 2007:

Review | Compare

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

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