Finding the changes within a Google Doc's revision

Question

I can use the revision history within a Google Doc to see who made what changes, but I have to search through the entire document to see which sections were touched by each change. Is there any way to find which page or sheet was changed by the selected revision?

I've experimented with both spreadsheets and documents, and neither of them scroll to the affected area. Even worse, I made a change to page 1 followed by a change to page 2 a few seconds later, and they were included in the same revision. I was using the more detailed history.

This question is similar to viewing or comparing revision differences in a new Google Docs document, but I'm not trying to compare arbitrary revisions. I just want to see what changed in the selected revision.

Answer 1

Until Google adds this functionality, you can't do it within the web app itself.

However you could copy and paste the data from Google Docs into two text files and then use a text-comparison tool to compare those files. Of course, this is a bit cumbersome.