compare documents: opens a NEW document?

[Zmusashi]

Office 2004 is new to me and I can't see why this is happening: If I compare
a document with another document, it opens a new document with highlighted
changes. Is there any way to disable this and choose to simply show the
document I requested to view changes in with highlighted changes, as a recall
former versions of Word doing? I like to keep documents with created dates
and modified dates and so on.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you are actually using Office 2004 (a Mac version), you will probably get
a faster and more reliable response by posting in one of the Mac-specific
NGs starting at
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups