Comparing Changes in Word Documents Using Google Docs

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Aug 14, 2009

Yesterday one of my clients called to ask me for help comparing two versions of a legal document in Microsoft Word. He had sent a legal contract to someone who subsequently edited and returned the document, but without any indication of the changes made. Word does have a feature to allow you to compare two revisions of a document to find the changes, but some people find it clunky to use. I suggested an easier method that even a computer novice can do using the free Google Docs application.

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A Better Clipboard Alternative for All Users

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Feb 18, 2008

The clipboard is probably the feature of Windows that I use more often than any other on my computer. There are two main problems I have with the clipboard:

1. It holds only one item at a time
2. There is no easy way to see what's in your clipboard

Today, Jeff Atwood's blog introduced me to a tool to solve both of these problems in one lightweight application.

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Google Plain Sight Secret: How to Tell Google to Return Only Recent Results

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Sep 18, 2007

Google offers a cool advanced search technique that you can use to find out which new pages Google discovered on your website in recent days. You can also use the same technique to find any new web content on a topic, such as a breaking news story.

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BACN isn't spam, but what exactly is it?

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Aug 29, 2007

If you haven't already heard or seen the term BACN, you will soon. So, what is BACN and why should email marketers care?

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Here's A Quick Way to Keep Important Emails from Falling Through the Cracks

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Aug 13, 2007

Roughly 40 to 60 legitimate emails establish residency in my inbox every business day. About 25% of them require me to perform some type of follow up action, like replying or completing a task. Combine those emails with the 10 to 30 phone calls I receive, plus my own prioritized To Do list that I create each day, and it would be easy for a few emails that require action to slip through the cracks. But Outlook 2003 offers a handy two-click method to easily track these emails so they don't end up in inbox oblivion.

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