[drglitch]

Word already has a diff view implementation that is pretty robust - it’s very useful for figuring out what changed across manually-versioned documents. This is in addition to classical track changes feature.

Adobe Acrobat also has a diff (including visual diff) feature that can be used to do advanced comparisons if necessary.

Granted, author’s suggestion is more user friendly and integrated.

[cpach]

“Word already has a diff view implementation that is pretty robust”

It does? Didn’t know that. How does one activate it?

[social_quotient]

They call it “compare”

[drglitch]

Open a document and go to "Review" ribbon and then click "Compare...".

You can do "Combine" which is effectively a merge interface.