Quickly find the difference between two Word documents

We often encounter such a problem: in two word files, there are only a few very small differences, if simply through manual method to proofread, then not only inefficient, but also easy to make mistakes, easy to miss some less obvious differences. Word 2003 has a built-in little feature that lets you quickly find the difference between two Word documents.

Action steps are as follows:

Open the word source file you want to compare first.

Perform the Tools menu → compare and merge Documents command, click another file in the Compare and Merge document window that appears, and then click the Compare button after you check the exact comparison checkbox.

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Word then starts a new document and identifies all the different points in a blue color.

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How are you, excited? But we found that Word automatically generated this the proofing page is not quite the same as our usual proofreading habits, for example, first of all, it doesn't use standard proofing symbols (such as strikethrough, insertion point, or anything), and it shows all the changes in the form of "deleted content" ( Whether it's inserted or modified, it makes people look like they're not used to it.

In fact, this is only the default display of Word proofing problem, we can modify its logo display to solve. As the following illustration shows, Word now defaults to using the final status of the display tag, and we simply change it to "show the original state of the markup."

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The diagram below shows the final effect.

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It's very convenient, then you don't have to try it quickly.