How to Compare Changes in two Word, Excel or PDF Files
Has it ever happened that you sent a Word document or an Excel Sheet to someone to review and they changed it and sent it back to you without having the 'Tracking' functionality on? Damn those people!
Well you don't need to fret so much afterall. There are a few solutions to this:
Diff Doc (Windows): Diff Doc is a Free Windows only program that allows you to compare two Word, Excel, PDF, etc documents and highlights the changes. (You can also try ExamDiff).
Word on Mac OSX: Do the following: i) Open the two docs; ii) Go to Tools > Track Changes > Compare Documents; iii) Select the two documents. [Tested for Office 2011].
Word on Windows: Word also has built in functionality to do so. Read here on the steps for comparing and merging two Word Documents.
Online Tool: Upload the two documents to msdiff.com to get the comparison result.
Command Line, etc.: Then there are a few other methods to make Word File comparisons as well.
Save time!
