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Finding changes in a long Word document

May 26, 2010 5:42PM PDT

Hello,

I have a couple of 30-page long MS Word documents. Is there a way to view what the most recent changes to the documents were?

Thanks!

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Re: track changes
May 27, 2010 12:25AM PDT

If the person who made the changes set the "track changes" option: yes.
If he didn't and you have the old version: print out and compare.
If he didn't and you don't have an old version: no.

Kees

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track changes
May 27, 2010 2:22PM PDT

"Track changes" was not set. However, there is a function there "compare documents", which I didn't know existed(!) It highlighted all the changes between the documents, as inserts and deletes.

Thank you! You saved me about a couple of hours printing and comparing documents!

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That's new to me as well.
May 28, 2010 6:52AM PDT

Nice to know, and thank you for that.

Mark