Seeing what's changed between two versions of a contract

You send a contract to a client and get an edited version back, without the changes having been tracked. What exactly has changed? Let Euro-Office compare the two versions for you.

Step by step

1. Open your own, original version. In the example: Contract versie 1.
2. Go to the Collaboration tab and click Compare (1).
3. Choose Document from storage (from your Nextcloud), Document from file (from your computer) or Document from URL.
4. Choose the other version. Euro-Office marks all the differences in your document as tracked changes.

Going through the differences

• Use Display Mode to choose how you view it: Markup and balloons, Only markup, Final (the new version) or Original.
• Go through the changes one by one and choose Accept or Reject for each. See Removing comments and changes before sending a document.
• Use Combine (next to Compare) to merge two versions that both already contain tracked changes.

Pitfalls

• Euro-Office compares word by word. A single different character within a word counts as a changed word.
• If your version already contains tracked changes, these are treated as accepted when comparing. Euro-Office asks you about this first. If you're unsure, make a copy first.
• You can't compare while someone else is working in the document. Wait until your colleague is finished, or work in a copy.
• Working with a PDF? Convert it to a docx first (see Converting a PDF into an editable Word file) and then compare.