{"id":3599,"date":"2019-08-17T15:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T03:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2019-08-17T15:21:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T03:21:44","slug":"comparedocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=3599","title":{"rendered":"Compare two (near) identical Word files, without going insane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Of course, in a modern cloud world, this shouldn\u2019t happen!<\/h2>\n
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We should share a link to a file and use versions to maintain it\u2019s history.\u00a0 But we\u2019re not in a perfect work, and we often get multiple people updating copies of the same file.\u00a0 Its all good until we have to figure out what\u2019s changed.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Did you know that Word can do this for you?<\/span><\/h3>\n
Either look on the \u2018Review\u2019 menu, or go to the top bar and type \u2018Compare\u2019 for find the menu option.<\/strong> Word will prompt you to pick two files and lead you through the differences, one by one.\u00a0 You can accept, or reject, any change.<\/div>\n
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Of course, in a modern cloud world, this shouldn\u2019t happen! We should share a link to a file and use versions to maintain it\u2019s history.\u00a0 But we\u2019re not in a perfect work, and we often get multiple people updating copies of the same file.\u00a0 Its all good until we have to figure out what\u2019s changed. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

Of course, in a modern cloud world, this shouldn\u2019t happen!<\/span><\/h3>\n
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We should share a link to a file and use versions to maintain it\u2019s history.\u00a0 But we\u2019re not in a perfect work, and we often get multiple people updating copies of the same file.\u00a0 Its all good until we have to figure out what\u2019s changed.<\/strong><\/div>\n

Did you know that Word can do this for you?<\/span><\/h3>\n
Either look on the \u2018Review\u2019 menu, or go to the top bar and type \u2018Compare\u2019 for find the menu option.<\/strong> Word will prompt you to pick two files and lead you through the differences, one by one.\u00a0 You can accept, or reject, any change.<\/div>\n
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