MERGE FILES QUESTIONS

[Matthew W. I. Dunn]

There are two questions here:

(1) I click Save As > another file with a different name.

Office comes up with a box that asks if I want to replace file, overwrite
file with changes, merge files. I click "merge."

Just *what* is this doing? The Help button is useless for information about
merging document files.

(2) After clicking "merge," four windows pop up: On the left, a long, thin
window showing (I guess) the changes made in the merge; a big window in the
middle showing the combined document; on the right, two boxlike windows
showing the two original files.

I closed the window on the left. But, . . . how do I get it back?

I tried going back to Square One (open document > Save As > choose another
file > select third option: merge). Nothing happened. The window did not
come back. In fact, nothing happened like it did the first time. All it did
was open up the other selected document, presumably, with the changes already
merged.

Once again, the Office Help function was as helpful as Clippy.

 

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