Word有两个非常有用的功能，几乎没有人使用过：比较文档( Compare Documents)和合并文档( Combine Documents)。正如它们的名字所暗示的那样，这些功能可以让您将两个Word 文档(Word docs)相互比较或将两个文档组合在一起。
那么你什么时候需要使用它呢？好吧，如果你像我一样，多年来你可能在不同的地方保存了 20 个不同版本的简历。有时我会为特定公司稍微修改简历以强调特定技能，或者有时我添加了一些内容并保存了一份新副本。
无论如何，很高兴快速查看我的最新简历和旧简历之间的区别，看看我是否应该在最新的简历中添加或删除一些内容。在这篇文章中，我将向您展示如何使用这两个功能快速找到两个文档之间的差异，并根据需要合并它们。
比较和合并文件
在我的例子中，我想看看我 2007 年写的旧简历和 2013 年更新的最新简历之间有什么区别。为此，打开Word，单击Review选项卡，然后单击Compare。
这将打开比较文档(Compare Documents) 对话框(dialog box)，您需要在其中选择原始文档和修订文档。
在底部，您会看到一大堆比较设置，您可以将其全部选中。默认情况下，它还会显示新文档中的所有更改，这比弄乱您的原始或修订文档要好。
将打开一个新文档，其中包含几个不同的部分：最左侧的可滚动修订列表，中间显示所有更改的组合文档和右侧的两个原始文档(hand side)。让我们仔细看看每个部分。
正如您在此处看到的，我删除了一些内容并插入了其他几行文本。如果您双击任何标题（Aseem Kishore Inserted或Asem Kishore Deleted(Aseem Kishore Deleted)），它会将光标移动到文档中的确切位置。
在中心，您将看到这些修订版以各种颜色显示。默认情况下，带有删除线的内容是已删除的内容，红色和下划线的内容是已添加到修订文档中的内容。任何绿色的东西都被移动了。它被移动的地方将是双删除线的绿色，它被移动到的地方将是双下划线的绿色，如下所示：
最后，在右侧，(hand side)您会在顶部看到原始文档，在下方看到修改后的文档。当您滚动顶部的文档时，底部的文档也会随之滚动，以使它们保持同步。不过，您可以独立于顶部屏幕滚动底部屏幕。
除了此视图之外，您还可以从右窗格中删除两个源文档，而是显示气球以轻松查看更改。要了解我的意思，请继续并再次单击“比较(Compare)”按钮，然后单击“显示源文档”(Show Source Documents)，最后单击“隐藏源文档”(Hide Source Documents)。
现在单击Tracking下的(Tracking)Show Markup按钮，然后单击Balloons，然后单击Show Revisions in Balloons。
在文档的(hand side)右侧，您现在将看到所有带有来自文档的行的修订。如果您有很多更改，这可以更轻松地查看所有更改。
请注意，如果您只想查看文档之间的差异，那么您真的不需要做任何其他事情。如果要从这两个文档创建最终文档，可以右键单击任何更改并(change and choose)选择Accept或Reject。
完成后，您可以保存新文档以及所做的所有更改。合并文档与(Combine Documents)比较(Compare)几乎完全相同。如果您选择Combine，您将获得相同的对话框，您必须在其中选择原始文档和修订文档。
完成此操作后，您将获得与以前相同的布局，您可以在中间看到组合更改。再次(Again)删除删除线文本，添加红色下划线(strikeout text)文本并移动绿色文本。只需右键单击(Just right-click)每个更改，然后选择是接受还是拒绝每个更改。完成后，保存新的组合文档。
总体而言，当您拥有同一文档的多个版本或多个人编辑一个Word 文档(Word document)并且您最终将多个文档合并为一个时，这些非常有用。如果您有任何问题，请随时发表评论。享受！
How to Use Compare & Combine Documents in Word
Word has two really useful features that almost no one eνer uses: Compare Documents and Combine Documents. As their names imply, the features let you either compare two Word docs against each other or combine two together.
So when would you ever need to use this? Well, if you’re like me, you probably have 20 different versions of your resume saved in various locations over the years. Sometimes I modify a resume slightly for a particular company to stress a particular skill or sometimes I’ve added stuff and just saved a new copy.
Anyway, it would be nice to quickly see the difference between my latest resume and older ones to see if there is something I should add to the latest one or possibly remove. In this post, I’ll show you how you can use these two features to quickly find differences between two documents and merge them if you like.
Compare & Combine Documents
In my example, I wanted to see what the difference was between my old resume written in 2007 and the latest one updated in 2013. To do this, open Word, click on the Review tab and then click on Compare.
This will bring up the Compare Documents dialog box where you need to pick your original document and revised document.
At the bottom, you’ll see a whole slew of comparison settings, which you can just leave all checked. By default, it will also show all the changes in a new document, which is better than messing with your original or revised documents.
A new document will open with several different sections: a scrollable list of revisions on the far left, the combined document showing all changes in the middle and the two original documents on the right hand side. Let’s take a closer look at each section.
As you can see here, I’ve deleted a few things and inserted a couple of other lines of text. If you double-click on any of the headings (Aseem Kishore Inserted or Aseem Kishore Deleted), it will move the cursor to that exact position in the document.
In the center, you will see these revisions in various colors. By default, anything with a strike-through is what has been deleted and anything in red and underlined is what has been added to the revised document. Anything in green has been moved around. The place where it was moved from will be double strike-through green and the place where it has been moved to will be double underlined green as shown here:
Finally, on the right hand side, you’ll see the original document at the top and the revised document down below. As you scroll the top document, the bottom one follows along so that they are in sync. You can scroll the bottom one independently of the top screen, though.
In addition to this view, you can also remove both the source documents from the right pane and instead show balloons to easily see the changes. To see what I mean, go ahead and click on the Compare button again, then on Show Source Documents and finally click on Hide Source Documents.
Now click on the Show Markup button under Tracking and click on Balloons and then Show Revisions in Balloons.
On the right hand side of the document, you’ll now see all the revisions with lines coming from the document. This can make it easier to see all the changes if you have a lot of them.
Note that if you just want to see the differences between the documents, then you really don’t have to do anything else. If you want to create a final document from these two documents, you can right-click on any change and choose to Accept or Reject.
Once you have finished, you can save the new document with all the changes you made. Combine Documents is pretty much exactly the same as Compare. If you choose Combine, you’ll get the same dialog where you have to choose the original and revised document.
Once you do that, you’ll get the same layout as before where you see the combined changes in the middle. Again, strikeout text is deleted, red underlined text is added and green text has been moved. Just right-click on each change and choose whether to accept or reject each change. When you are done, save the new combined document.
Overall, these are really useful for times when you have multiple versions of the same document or when several people edit one Word document and you end up with multiple documents to combine into one. If you have any questions, feel free to comment. Enjoy!
