| Here is a task that most of us have been confronted | | | | WAIT! Before doing anything else, make sure you |
| with in the past: | | | | check the Legal Blackline check-box. This will switch |
| 1. You have two documents, with slight differences | | | | the Merge button to "Compare." |
| between them. This happens, for example, when | | | | 4. Click the Compare button. |
| someone has edited a text but did not save any | | | | MS Word will create a third document in which all |
| editing marks with the document. | | | | changes are marked and displayed. You can give any |
| 2. You'd like to compare these two documents, find | | | | name you want to this third file and save it. |
| out the parts that have been changed without, | | | | If there are any tracked changes with any of these |
| however, altering any of the source documents. | | | | two documents MS Word will prompt you whether |
| 3. Then you'd like to save only the changes in a | | | | to accept the tracked changes as though they are |
| separate third file. | | | | accepted. Click Yes to accept them as they are. |
| Can you do it? With Microsoft Word 2003, yes, you | | | | You can also perform the same kind of comparison |
| can. | | | | between the two VERSIONS of the same document |
| Here is how: | | | | if you have saved different versions of it either |
| 1. Open your Document 1. | | | | manually or automatically. That saves all the versions |
| 2. Select Tools > Compare and Merge Documents | | | | as a single file. That way you do not need to open |
| from your main menu to display the Compare and | | | | multiple documents on your screen. You can select |
| Merge Documents dialog box. | | | | the one you want from all the available versions by |
| 3. Navigate to the appropriate folder and select | | | | selecting File > Versions from the main menu of |
| Document 2 that you'll use in the comparison. But | | | | any document. |