{"id":3073,"date":"2015-09-23T03:15:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T03:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2023-04-15T01:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T01:25:45","slug":"how-to-compare-two-word-documents-in-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/how-to-compare-two-word-documents-in-word\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Compare Two Word Documents for Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you want to see the changes in current Word document different from original one, I think you would compare them in Microsoft Word to find the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Now the article assumes that you have an original version of a document and at least one other changed version that you want to compare against the original.<\/p>\n<h2>Steps to compare two Word documents for difference in Microsoft Word 2010<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Open Microsoft Word 2010 and tap <strong>Review<\/strong> on toolbar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/choose-compare-option-in-word-2010.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/choose-compare-option-in-word-2010.png\" alt=\"choose compare option in Word 2010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/choose-compare-option-in-word-2010.png 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/choose-compare-option-in-word-2010-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Click <strong>Compare <\/strong>in <strong>Compare<\/strong> group and choose <strong>&#8220;Compare\u2026&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>option.<\/p>\n<p>This option is used to compare two versions of a document.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Select two Word documents you want to compare in <strong>Compare Documents<\/strong> window.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/select-compared-word-documents.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/select-compared-word-documents.png\" alt=\"select compared word documents\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/select-compared-word-documents.png 500w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/select-compared-word-documents-300x104.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In pop-up Compare Documents window, select the Original document and Revised document. If you don\u2019t want to set any more parameters, just click OK to compare these two documents you selected.<\/p>\n<p>If you like to make more settings, click <strong>More<\/strong> button to unfold the Comparison settings and set how to show changes after comparison. Then click <strong>OK<\/strong> at last.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/word-document-comparison-settings.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"411\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/word-document-comparison-settings.png\" alt=\"word documents comparison settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/word-document-comparison-settings.png 500w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/word-document-comparison-settings-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Get difference between two Word documents.<\/p>\n<p>Instantly, you will see the differences appearing in new document, original document or revised document, according to the location you choose to show changes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/difference-between-two-word-documents.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/difference-between-two-word-documents.png\" alt=\"difference between two word documents\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/difference-between-two-word-documents.png 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/difference-between-two-word-documents-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the differences are opened in new document, you can save it in computer for check later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/how-to-create-and-run-macros-in-ms-word-2010\/\">How to Create Macros in MS Word 2010 and Run in New Document<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/how-to-unlock-word-document-2013-without-password\/\">How to Unlock Word 2013 Document without Password<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/word-password\/three-ways-to-remove-word-password.html\">Three Ways to Remove Word Password<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you want to see the changes in current Word document different from original one, I think you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6290,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/6290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}