Word has two really useful features that almost no one ever uses: Compare Documents and Combine Documents. As their names suggest, these features let you compare two Word documents or combine two documents.
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So when would you ever need this? Well, if you’re like me, you’ve probably saved 20 different versions of your resume in different locations over the years. Sometimes I’ll tweak a resume slightly for a particular company to highlight a particular skill, or sometimes I’ll add things and just save a new copy.
Anyway, it would be nice to quickly see the difference between my latest resume and older resumes to see if I need to add something to the latest resume or possibly remove something. In this post, I will show you how to use these two features to quickly find differences between two documents and merge them if you want.
In my example, I wanted to see what the difference was between my old resume from 2007 and the latest resume that was updated in 2013. To do this, open Word, click the Review tab, and then click Compare.
