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In Microsoft Word you can easily view two documents side-by-side and even scroll through them synchronously with a few easy clicks!
Open two documents to view them side by side.
Now from any document window, navigate to View tab and click View Side by Side.
Clicking will open both Word document windows. Click in each window to put the cursor at the same position in each window. Now for generic comparison purposes, click Synchronous Scrolling.
On scrolling down the window, you will notice that scrolling is now synced with the other document. On scrolling up/down a document window, the other document will automatically be scrolled in the same same way.
Just click Reset Window Position to reset the original position of both document windows.
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