(3) The original document is show in above section of right pane, while the revised document is show in the below section. (2) The combined document is displayed in the middle section
(1) The main changes and comments are shown in the left pane See screenshot:Īnd now you will see the original document has been combined with the first one of the checked document.
A Microsoft Word dialog pops up, please click Continue with Merge button. In the Combine Documents dialog box, (1) check the Comments option in the Comparison settings section, (2) check the Original document option in the Show changes section, and (3) click the OK button. (2) Click the Browse button besides the Revise document box, select the revised document you will merge in the Open dialog box, and click the Open button.ģ.Now in the Combine Documents dialog box, please click the More button to expand more options. (1) Click the Browse button besides the Original document box, select the original document you will merge in the Open dialog box, and finally click the Open button. Open a Word document, and click Review > Compare > Combine. “The post Word trick #1: Merging tracked changes and comments first appeared on Eva Lefkowitz’s blog on May 29, 2014.1. However, if I did it again, I would ask all readers not to make any formatting changes, but instead, to make comments as to where they thought formatting changes should be made (e.g., highlight text and write in comment “should be bold.”).Įither way, much better than trying to go through 900 revisions across 3 documents. It wasn’t a huge deal, because we weren’t doing careful formatting reads this time (e.g., fixing indents, fixing bold vs. I didn’t learn until I had everyone’s feedback that Word will not merge formatting edits from multiple documents, so it lost everyone’s formatting edits.
I ended up with one document that had everyone’s tracked changes, plus everyone’s comments, in one place. Repeat as many times as necessary depending on how many people worked on the document.
You can choose what you do and do not want to compare/merge, and how to do it.Choose an original and a revised version.Choose combine revisions from multiple authors.You can find details about how to do it here. It mostly worked, creating one document with everyone’s comments combined. Nervously, I went with merging track changes and comments in Word. One student suggested creating a google doc to work from simultaneously, but I worried about working on sections at the same time, and about loss of formatting in the conversion.
The feedback totaled about 900 revisions. On the final day, my 3 students each read a 20 page, single spaced (0.5 inch margin!) document to give feedback. Last week we had our grant writing marathon.