Differences between two files

What is an easy way to see the differences between two files? I sent a file
to a client for checking, and they sent it back to me an edited version. Is
there any way to get the changes to show up in a different colour or
something?

Thank you for any help with this, and by the way thanks also for very fast
and helpful responses to the previous enquiries I have made here.

Cindy
Mon Feb 27 03:22:08 CST 2006

Hi Ben,

> What is an easy way to see the differences between two files? I sent a file
> to a client for checking, and they sent it back to me an edited version. Is
> there any way to get the changes to show up in a different colour or
> something?
>
You don't mention the version of Word, so I'm not sure the menu command I'm
going to propose is exactly the same as you'll see. But the functionality is
there since time imemorial.

Tools/Compare Documents (or Merge Documents). You can have this execute into a
new document, or into one of the existing documents. It will mark where they
differ with "track changes".

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
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Ben
Mon Feb 27 07:27:58 CST 2006


"Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote in message
news:VA.0000babd.00676df7@speedy...
> Hi Ben,
>
>> What is an easy way to see the differences between two files? I sent a
>> file
>> to a client for checking, and they sent it back to me an edited version.
>> Is
>> there any way to get the changes to show up in a different colour or
>> something?
>>
> You don't mention the version of Word, so I'm not sure the menu command
> I'm
> going to propose is exactly the same as you'll see. But the functionality
> is
> there since time imemorial.
>
> Tools/Compare Documents (or Merge Documents). You can have this execute
> into a
> new document, or into one of the existing documents. It will mark where
> they
> differ with "track changes".

Thanks for the help. Actually, strangely, it worked out that the document
was the new version of an old document by itself and did the thing
automatically.

Suzanne
Mon Feb 27 09:03:19 CST 2006

Presumably the client had Track Changes on while editing.

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"Ben K. Bullock" <benkasminbullock@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote in message
> news:VA.0000babd.00676df7@speedy...
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> >> What is an easy way to see the differences between two files? I sent a
> >> file
> >> to a client for checking, and they sent it back to me an edited
version.
> >> Is
> >> there any way to get the changes to show up in a different colour or
> >> something?
> >>
> > You don't mention the version of Word, so I'm not sure the menu command
> > I'm
> > going to propose is exactly the same as you'll see. But the
functionality
> > is
> > there since time imemorial.
> >
> > Tools/Compare Documents (or Merge Documents). You can have this execute
> > into a
> > new document, or into one of the existing documents. It will mark where
> > they
> > differ with "track changes".
>
> Thanks for the help. Actually, strangely, it worked out that the document
> was the new version of an old document by itself and did the thing
> automatically.
>

Stan
Mon Feb 27 12:46:58 CST 2006

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:28:50 +0900 from Ben K. Bullock
<benkasminbullock@gmail.com>:
> What is an easy way to see the differences between two files? I sent a file
> to a client for checking, and they sent it back to me an edited version. Is
> there any way to get the changes to show up in a different colour or
> something?

In situations like this, I use the free program CSDiff. For Word
files it's a front end to a "track revisions".

http://componentsoftware.com/products/csdiff/news.htm

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