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<p class="Paragraph">Perhaps one of the authors who received a copy of your document made changes but didn't record them by choosing the <span class="T1">Edit - Changes - Record</span> command. Depending on how nice you would like to be, you can ask the author to do it over, but correctly this time with OpenOffice.org, or you can compare the delivered copy of the document with your original document yourself.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">You can also use this feature to compare to configuration files and identify the differences, for example, before and after a piece of software has been installed. Select the file type "Text" in the file selection dialog if this is appropriate.</p>
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<span class="T1">Open your original document and then choose the Edit - Compare Document... menu command.</span>
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<p class="P2">You see a file selection dialog where you can select the copy of the document. Confirm the dialog.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">Now OpenOffice.org combines both documents in your original document. All text passages that occur in your document but not in the copy are identified as having been inserted, and all text passages that are missing in your original document are identified as deletions.</p>
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<p class="P3">You can now accept the "insertions", in which case the relevant texts stay in their original form, or you can accept the "deletions", in which case the marked text contained in the copy are not inserted in your document.</p>
