Quick Reference Guide

Litera Compare for PowerPoint | Getting Started

Introducing Litera Compare for

PowerPoint
Litera Compare for PowerPoint, part of the Litera Compare suite, compares PowerPoint
presentations, including embedded objects such as images and Excel sheets. This guide
is designed to help get you started with Litera Compare for PowerPoint. For a complete
description of features, see the Litera Compare for PowerPoint User Guide.

Selecting presentations for comparison

In Litera
Compare for
PowerPoint

Select any previously opened files from the Original and Modified
dropdown lists, or click to select files from your DMS, or click to
select from a local folder.

In your DMS A variety of right-click comparison options are available, depending

on the DMS. For example, select two presentations in a folder, right-
click and select Compare Selected Documents, or select a single
presentation, right-click, and select Compare to Previous Version.

In Windows Compare two presentations in the same folder by selecting both

folders presentations, right-clicking, and selecting Compare with Litera
Compare. If you want to compare presentations in different folders,
you can right-click a single presentation and select either Litera
Compare > Compare (Original) or Litera Compare > Compare
(Modified).

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In PowerPoint Click the Litera Compare button in the Litera tab to send the currently
active presentation to Litera Compare as the modified presentation, or
click the button’s dropdown arrow to compare any two currently open
presentations.

In Outlook Select an email that contains at least one PowerPoint attachment and
click the Compare Attachments button in the Litera Compare tab. If
the email is displayed in the Outlook Reading pane, click the dropdown
on any PowerPoint attachment and select Compare Attachments.

Comparing presentations
The Litera Compare window includes tools that enable you to run, save, and share
comparisons.

The Compare group in the Compare ribbon allows you to start comparisons, as well as stop
and adjust them.

Start a comparison The Compare button is a split button. Click the

main button icon to start a comparison immediately,
or click the dropdown arrow to access the following
options:

• Compare: Start a new comparison. If more

than one comparison tab is open, the
currently selected comparison is replaced.

• Compare in New Tab: Start a new

comparison in a new tab.

Stop a comparison Click the Stop button to halt a comparison in

progress.

This button is only enabled during the

comparison process.

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Choose a comparison style Select any available comparison style from the
Styles dropdown list. Comparison styles control
what Litera Compare compares and how it displays
changes.

Create a new comparison style Click the Create/Edit Styles button to open the
Edit Styles dialog, where you can create a new
comparison style and edit any existing styles.

Adjust comparison options The Session Options button opens the Session
Options dialog, where you can adjust comparison
options for the current Litera Compare session.
The options you change here override the selected
comparison style, and are discarded when you
close Litera Compare.

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Reviewing changes
The Review group in the Litera Compare ribbon allows you to navigate through, search for,
and accept changes, as well as find keywords and switch layouts. You can also scroll through
the redline itself to review changes.

Navigate Use the First, Previous, Next, and Last Change

changes buttons to go forward or back through the changes.

To create a revised version, you must have at least

Toggle one change accepted. Use the Toggle Changes
changes button to accept or reject the currently selected
change.

Go To and The Go To and Find buttons allow you to jump to a

Find specific page or word string.

Switch The Layout dropdown lists all available layouts for

layouts the Litera Compare Document Viewer.

The Change List to the left of the Document Viewer lists all changes by type.

• Changes: Displays all changes. You can

accept specific changes as needed to
create a new revised version, and also filter
changes by their location in the document.

• Search: You can search for specific strings in

the entire redline or the Change List.

• Summary: Provides a summary of all

changes, by change type.

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Sharing changes
Use the Share group options to save, print, and email redlines, as well as the original
and modified presentations. These buttons are split buttons. The button icons themselves
activate their default functions, while the dropdown arrows provide additional options:

Save the currently selected comparison. If you

have accepted at least one change, the Save
Save
dialog allows you to create and save a revised
version in addition to a redline.

Print: Print the currently selected presentation.

Print Preview: View a preview of how the

selection will print.

Print Print Slide Notes: Print the currently selected

presentation in slide notes view.

Print Preview Slide Notes: View a preview of

how the slide notes printout will appear.

Email: Email any currently open redline or

related presentation.
Email Email Multiple: If multiple comparison tabs are
open, send more than one redline in a single
email.

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Personal preferences
You can customize and save specific settings as your personal preferences from File >
Settings:

Comparing selected content

You can use Selective Compare to run a comparison on snippets of content pasted from
emails, chats or files. This is much faster and more focused than comparing an entire
presentation. Content can include text, tables, code and images and results are displayed
in the familiar Compare environment.

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To compare selected content

1. From the Litera tab, click Selective Compare.

2. Drag the content you want to compare into the Original area or click in the area to
paste your content there. The content can include text, images, tables, code.

3. In the Modified area, drag or paste the content you want to compare with the original
content.

To swap the original and modified content, click .

4. Click Compare. The comparison is displayed in the Litera Compare for Word window.

Selective Compare has its own executable. If you want to directly launch the
executable from the desktop, you can create a shortcut to this executable. Go to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Litera\Compare\Selective, right-click the executable and select
Create Shortcut.

Clipboard comparison
Litera Compare includes Litera Compare Clipboard, which allows you to compare content
from any application without having to save it as a file and without having to open the
Litera Compare application. This is handy for on-the-fly, quick comparisons of content from
Microsoft Office files, as well as web content.

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To compare selected content

1. In any Microsoft Office application, highlight a block of text (or, in the case of Excel,
a cell) and click the Add to Compare button in the Litera tab. The Litera Compare
Clipboard panel opens with the selected content at the top of the list.

You can also use the Litera Compare Clipboard shortcut key (typically
Ctrl+Shift+1) to copy the content.

2. Select other content and add to Litera Compare Clipboard.

3. In the Litera Compare Clipboard panel, select the two pieces of content you want
to compare and click the Compare selected items button or right-click and select
Compare. A Litera Compare Redline panel opens displaying the comparison results.

You can only compare similar content, for example, text content against another piece
of text content. You cannot compare text content against cells content.

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