How to compare documents in Pages

You still cannot. However, if you download Libre Office you can do it pretty well in that program. It does not cost anything. I just copied the two versions into their text documents, save them. Leave the "original" open, then under Edit >track changes > compare you open the "edited" one and you can see all the changes.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 7, 2020 11:55 AM

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Sep 8, 2020 5:36 AM in response to facacajr

Optionally, with Xcode installed, FileMerge becomes available for visual text file comparisons. FileMerge is triggered by the following Terminal command with two text files:


opendiff file1.txt file2.txt


and the graphical file comparison appears as:



Installing Xcode just for this feature is a horrible waste of Gigabytes of storage though, unless there are other demanding reasons for its installation.

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