Word 2016 Intermediate

Lesson 9 – Working with Comments and Revisions

Word 2016

C OMPARING D OCUMENTS  D ISCUSSION

Easily compare two versions of a document (the Original Document and a Revised Document ). Word compares the two documents and displays the result in a Compared Document pane. The Compared Document shows the text of the Original Document with the differences found in the Revised Document marked as tracked changes. Thehen review the changes and decide what to keep and what to reject. This is known as the Legal Blackline method of comparing.

Choose which types of changes you want to compare and you can select whether to display the changes in the original, the revised, or a new document.

Compare documents

NOTE If you want to compare changes from several reviewers, do not use the Legal Blackline method. Use Combine revisions from multiple authors instead. By default, tracked changes are labeled with the name of the last person to save changes in the Revised Document . Change the label assigned to tracked changes by editing the automatic entry in the Label changes with text box in the Compare Document s dialog box.

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