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Compare contract documents
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Compare contract documents
Someone in the office just emailed me and asked if the compare documents can be used on contracts. He said he had one 30 page and a new 50 page document. I have only used the compare documents a few times as PM or estimating is not my normal lane. But I was thinking that normaly works by comparing page label to page label and any new sheets would have to be checked 100%. But if a contract is just labeled by page numbers, is there a way to see what sentences or points were added. Told my co worker I would pose the question and get back to him. I appreciate anyone that might have a workflow for this.
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Points: 14,087Rank: UC2 Brainery Blue Belt IIII
Hi @Chad Czerwinski . With that many changes I’d imagine that using compare would be rather difficult so will be interested to see if someone comes up with something for you.
I have done a comparison a bit like this a different way in the past though. That time I exported everyting out to Excel and then did a bit of Cut & Pasting and aused a couple of formulas to highlight where the changes were.
Good luck!
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Points: 27,610Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt I
Great question @Chad Czerwinski !
What I’ve done in the past is to work paragraph by paragraph to see what has changed.
1. With both PDF documents open side by side use the Revu “Snapshot” tool to capture the text from the new document.
2. Paste the snapshot onto the original document
3. Use “change color” to make the snapshot of new text green
4. Position the snapshot over the paragraph and see what has changed
You can vary your snapshots based on how consistent the pages are, but this gives you options if paragraphs have been moved across page breaks.
This doesn’t work quite as well as the drawing compare, but it will get the job done. 🙂
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Points: 15,628Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Blue Belt
comparing a text document is a bit different.
I’d do what Dave suggested and put them side by side, turn on the sync and start reading.With a 20 page difference, any differences shouldn’t be too hard to spot.
Highlighter tools will become your friend.
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Points: 24,220Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt IIII
the problem with text documents is that as soon as you add one letter or word, the entire remainder of the document wraps differently, therefore everything after that comes up as a change. I really like the workflow @DavidCutler suggested. Doing it in small bites and the color change is great.
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