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How to Compare Two Documents and Find the Differences

Someone sent back ‘a few small edits’ to a contract? Don’t read both versions side by side – let a diff tool highlight every change.

🆚Free Text Compare (Diff)
Highlight the differences between two texts.Open tool →

Quick compare in your browser

Paste the original on the left and the new version on the right in Text Compare, then click Compare. Additions show in green and deletions in red. Choose Words for prose, Lines for code and config files. Nothing is uploaded, so it's safe for contracts.

In Microsoft Word

Review > Compare > Compare two versions, choose the original and revised documents, and Word builds a tracked-changes view.

In Google Docs

Tools > Compare documents, then choose the other document – Google creates a new doc with suggested edits showing the differences.

Tips

Copy plain text from PDFs with PDF to Text first. Compare by lines for long documents – it's faster and easier to scan.

Frequently asked questions

Can I compare PDFs?

Extract the text first with PDF to Text, then compare.

Is there a length limit?

Very long texts are best compared by lines.

Is my text stored?

No.

🆚Free Text Compare (Diff)
Highlight the differences between two texts.Open tool →

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