If some Windows functions aren't working or Windows crashes, use the System File Checker to scan Windows and restore your files. Though the steps below might look complicated at first glance, just follow them in order, step-by-step, and we’ll try to get you back on track.

Microsoft 365 Office 2016 - 2021 macOS Web. Learn how Version History helps you see what changes have been made in a file, compare different versions, or restore the version you want: Open the file you want to view. Click the title of your file and select Version history.

In the lower-left pane, choose the options you want included in the workbook comparison, such as formulas, cell formatting, or macros. Or, just Select All. On the Home tab, choose Compare Files. In the Compare Files dialog box, in the Compare row, browse to the earlier version of your workbook.

You can review differences between the current version and an earlier or later version of the same project in a detailed report. On the Report tab, choose Compare Projects. Select the project version you want to compare from the drop-down list. To locate project versions, choose Browse.

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You can use Database Compare to compare the one version of an Access desktop database to another. You’ll see difference, such as new or changed tables, queries, fields, field properties, and so on, in a SQL Server Reporting Services report that you can export to Excel or save in PDF format.

Use Database Compare to find design changes between two Access desktop database files or two versions of the same file. Database Compare alerts you to additions, deletions, or renaming of objects such as tables, queries, forms, reports, and VBA modules.

Say you want to compare versions of a workbook, analyze a workbook for problems or inconsistencies, or see links between workbooks or worksheets. If Microsoft Microsoft 365 or Office Professional Plus 2013 is installed on your computer, the Spreadsheet Inquire add-in is available in Excel.

See the fine details of your VBA code changes, line by line, highlighted by color, by double-clicking a line in the results grid of Spreadsheet Compare report.

When you try to compare the documents, the document compare operation takes a long time, and you receive the following error message: Word was unable to compare the documents. Resolution. To resolve this issue, apply the following update: 2597961 Description of the Word 2007 hotfix package (Word-x-none.msp, Wordconv-x-none.msp): February 28, 2012.