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Old 07-30-2021, 06:01 AM
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I have a couple of similar documents which need editing. I have edited the 1st document and will need to copy some of the text to the next document, while tracking all the changes made.


Eg:


Document 1: I have dog that bites
Document 2 : I have a dog that bites.


I want to select the whole sentence from Document 2 and paste on Document 1, and on Document 1, when I track the changes, "a" and "." will show up as the changes I've made.



Currently, when I copy and paste the sentence, the whole sentence "I have a dog that bites." will show up as the changes.


Can it be done?


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Try the Compare facility. See Compare document differences using the legal blackline option - Word.
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Hi Stefan!


Thanks for the quick response. However, it's not exactly what I want, coz ALL changes is tracked. Only certain sentences I need to edit whereas the rest will remain, as the documents are similar but not 100% the same.


It's just that there are a total of maybe 10 documents that I need to edit, where some clauses are general clauses, and the rest are specific to the document itself. So it's quite a pain to look at both documents and change it one by one. Thought there may be a way to just copy and paste all the general clauses over and send it to the individuals and they each can track the changes of their specific document.
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Are you saying that only certain parts of the documents must be compared? In that case, you may have to do the comparison manually, I'm afraid.
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Old 07-31-2021, 06:23 AM
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Hi! Yeah.. looks like I need to do it manually. Anyway, thanks for your help. I learned something new on the compare thingy..
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