On or other of the documents is corrupt.
It possibly contains tracked changes -- Word should warn you if that
happens, but sometimes it crashes before it can.
Resolve all tracked changes (accept or reject) in both documents, then try
again
Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
MS Word crashes when trying to run a document compare
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