View your comparison in a browser
An introduction to the Workshare Compare Online browser environment.
With Workshare Compare Online, you can view the results of a document comparison in your browser.
From here, you can navigate between changes, accept/reject changes and create a new document, and download/save the comparison.
Change summary
On the left you see the change summary which lists the changes by type, in categories. For example, all changes to punctuation are listed in the Punctuation category.
Selecting a change in the change summary highlights the change in the comparison on the right.
Selecting the checkbox next to a change, indicates that you want to accept that change.
Note: You can hide/display the change summary window by clicking Change Summary.
Comparison
On the right you see the comparison (or redline) showing the results of comparing two documents or two versions of a document. Changes are marked as follows:
Deleted text is red and struck through
Added text is blue and underlined
You can navigate between the changes in the comparison using the buttons in the toolbar.
You can also swap the source documents. Click above the comparison and the comparison is re-run, exchanging the original document for the modified document and the modified document for the original document.
Note: Use the zoom tools to change the magnification of the comparison.
Toolbar
The toolbar provides access to key functionality as follows:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Save as PDF | Enables you to save the comparison as a PDF file to your default download location. |
| Save as DOCX | Enables you to save the comparison as a DOCX document. The comparison cannot be edited in the browser but using this option you can open it in Word with the changes identified by the different formatting. |
| Track changes | Enables you to save the comparison as a DOCX document with the changes shown as tracked changes. This isn't supported for comparisons of PDF files. |
| Enables you to print the comparison. | |
| Previous Change | Navigates to the previous change and highlights the entire change in the comparison. |
| Next Change | Navigates to the next change and highlights the entire change in the comparison. |
Accept/reject changes
You can select the checkboxes in the change summary next to the changes you want to accept. Then click the Accept selected changes button and Workshare Compare generates a new version of the original document with the selected changes applied. This new version is saved to your default download location and is called "Applied.docx".