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Businesses Analyst from my team keeps sending us the updated Requirements documents often and I end up hunting the recent changes by comparing the old version. Is their a good way of comparing the Word documents?
Note: We have the track changes option ON, but now the documents looks like a blood bath, complicating it much more :(
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Open one of the two versions of the document that you want to compare. On the Tools menu, point to Track Changes, and then click Compare Documents. In the Original document list, select the original document. In the Revised document list, browse to the other version of the document, and then click OK.
Click Review > Compare > Combine. Under Original document, click the arrow and then click the document that contains the combined changes. Under Revised document, click the next copy you want to merge. In the Label unmarked changes with box, type a name or phrase so you'll know who suggested the changes.
On the Review tab, in the Compare group, click Compare. Click Compare two versions of a document (legal blackline). Under Original document, browse for the document that you want to use as the original document. Under Revised document, browse for the other document that you want to compare.
Use this option in Word 2003:
Tools | Compare and Merge Documents
Or this in Word 2007:
Review | Compare
It prompts you for a file with which to compare the file you're editing.
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I use TortoiseMerge with the xdocdiff plugin to compare Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF versioned files
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