Today I have been working on a document using dropbox. I now have a conflicted copy saved by my colleague and I wanted to know how to compare the differences. Now the long way is to do a stare and compare, however I knew that the Windows version of Word offered a compare facility. I started looking at the options in Mac Word. The following steps are how to compare two documents using Microsoft Word 2010 for Mac
- Open both the documents you want to compare
- Select Tools
- Goto Track Changes
- Select Compare Documents…
- You are prompted with a window where you can select the two documents to compare
- Click Ok
The documents will be compared and merged into a new document. Really easy.
Hello David, you cannot imagine how helpful your post has been to me. Millions of thanks! I have been looking for this option on Mac, only God knows since when.
I’ve been using the “Compare Documents” function for several years. Very useful indeed! I have one problem. When I check either the “Accept” or “Reject” choices, I get a “wristwatch” icon (as when a document or application is loading), and I can’t get rid of it as long as I’m using the program. It just stays there. After using “Compare Documents,” I have to quit and relaunch the Word application. Our tech guy tells me that it’s caused by a bug. Do you know how to prevent this from happening? Or a command that can delete the wristwatch?
Many thanks for this information, David.
Just what I hoped to find (after seeing several sources on Internet saying this could not be done on Microsoft Word for Mac). Works a treat.
Best regards,
Alan