{"id":478,"date":"2012-09-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/09\/word-2010-version-comparison\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T07:41:58","slug":"word-2010-version-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/09\/word-2010-version-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Word 2010 document version comparison in SharePoint 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t generally do a lot of typical document management in my day to day role, usually, once I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written a document and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s issued to a client, then that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s onto delivery or project work or something similar.<\/p>\n<p>Just recently however, I had a need to go back through the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nitty gritty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of a document and understand what the fundamental changes were between the various versions that I had in SharePoint.<\/p>\n<p>As I have version history turned on in this library, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very easy to see the old versions of the document and then compare them side by side on a large monitor. However the easiest way is to use Word\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inbuilt version comparison tool which in conjunction with SharePoint 2010 becomes a very powerful tool indeed!<\/p>\n<p>We start by opening the current version of the document from the library in edit mode. Then in the ribbon click on the review tab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/images\/BlogImages\/Word-2010-Version-comparison_E9A0\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/images\/BlogImages\/Word-2010-Version-comparison_E9A0\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"555\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then select the drop down arrow under compare and choose specific version<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/images\/BlogImages\/Word-2010-Version-comparison_E9A0\/image_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/images\/BlogImages\/Word-2010-Version-comparison_E9A0\/image_thumb_3.png\" width=\"306\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The resulting window should look very familiar as the data is fresh out of the SharePoint library. In this case I chose the version from 2 saves ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/images\/BlogImages\/Word-2010-Version-comparison_E9A0\/image_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/images\/BlogImages\/Word-2010-Version-comparison_E9A0\/image_thumb_4.png\" width=\"321\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Word opens up the older version of the document, and then brings up the comparison screen, highlighting the differences between the two documents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/images\/BlogImages\/Word-2010-Version-comparison_E9A0\/image_5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/images\/BlogImages\/Word-2010-Version-comparison_E9A0\/image_thumb_5.png\" width=\"578\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this point, I was happy, I had been able to see what was removed without resorting to track changes and could report my findings. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot more that this comparison tool can do, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for another day.<\/p>\n<p>Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t generally do a lot of typical document management in my day to day role, usually, once I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written a document and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s issued to a client, then that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s onto delivery or project work or something similar. 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