How to compare two Pages documents
I worked for a long time on a Pages document:
file.1.pages.
Since I didn't plan to make many modifications, I didn't activate
Edit > Track Changes
silly me 😊!
I saved the modified Pages document with a new name:
file.2.pages
Now I would like to check I didn't forget a key point or made any error during my
modifications. Well I would like to review and check all the modifications I made.
How may I compare
file.1.pages
and
file.2.pages
This isn't a comparison I can deal with manually:
- too much text,
- too many small spelling fixes,
- many unsignificant formatting changes.
Wasting a lot of time within the over long menus of Pages, I didn't find anything that
could help me solve this very basic function of a text editor.
I think I should be blind not to see this elementary function.
Silly me 😊!
Next I searched on the web for any receipe to achieve it, and with the problem
caused by the name of this software ( Pages ) I just found 2 tons of irrelevant answers
and nothing simple, easy to use.
Note: I am at ease with all the command line tools, and would appreciate such a way to deal with
this function. For example, with:
vi
this is trivially achieved with:
diff file.1 file.2
within less than 2 seconds to type this command line.
And in a modern IT world, this should be easier with a graphical user interface in a tool like Pages.
Of course his is a question independant of any version of hardware and macOS.
I filled the field asked to feed the robot, but it's irrelevant 😊.
MacBook Pro (2017 – 2020)