I am working with two huge Word documents and I want to see only the similarities between. I have been using the compare function under the review tab however it is showing a lot of deletions and insertions. I want to see only what was "moved," basically I want to know if stuff was the same between the two documents but I don't want to know anything else.
Word – Compare two word documents to show only similarities
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I can't be more specific since I do not have a version, but here is how you do in in Word 2010.
Go to the Insert tab, then click on Object (it is in the text sub-category over near the far right). You will then see the following screenshot:
Browse to the file, and check the "Link to file" box. You can either update the source file (I would do this to avoid confusion), or if you are in the destination file, when you try to edit it, it actually opens the file within the file. Hard to explain, but you will get it when you see it.
Other versions of Office are very similar.
- Click on the little arrow in the corner of Tracking portion of Review ribbon to get to
Track Changes Options - Click
Advanced Options - Change Markup for Insertions and Deletions to
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I used Draftable for Word. It is much, much better than the compare that's built into Word. There is a free trial.
The compare plugin for notepad++ is good, so I suppose you could copy just the unformatted text into text files and compare that way.