[Peter T. Daniels]

You should never try to work on a document opened directly from email.
Save it to your hard drive first.

On Feb 23, 2:38*pm, Roshan Q
wrote:
Scenario: a Word document attached to an e-mail message is opened. *The user
then wants to compare the document against another version of it in the My
Documents folder.

In Word 2003, this is how it works: when a document is open, the Tools --
'Compare and Merge Documents' command opens a dialog box to select a
(revised) document to compare against the open (original) document. *Only the
revised document needs to be selected; Word assumes that the original
document is the open document.

However, in Word 2007, even with a document open, the Review -- Compare
command opens a dialog box which requires that BOTH the original document and
the revised document be selected. *In other words, the user has to select
BOTH documents even through one is already open.

Is there a way in Word 2007 to have the "Original Document" or "Revised
Document" field (it doesn't matter which) pre-populated with the open
document? Or is there any other way to easily have the comparison use the
open document as the original? *Remember that is this scenario one of the
documents was opened from Outlook and the user has no idea where on the
computer it is.