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Merge Edits in ChatGPT

Several people edited their own copies of the same draft. Ask ChatGPT to merge them and get one Word document with each person's changes tracked under their name.

Overview

You sent a draft to three people and got three edited copies back. Combining them by hand means opening each one and retyping its changes into a master copy. With the Version Story plugin, ChatGPT merges the copies for you and returns a single Word document in which every change is a tracked change labeled with the person who made it.

Version Story does the merge, not ChatGPT, so no edit is dropped or reworded along the way.

Before you start

You need the Version Story plugin in ChatGPT. See Install Version Story in ChatGPT.

You also need the original: the version everyone started from. A merge works out what each person changed by comparing their copy against it.

Merge the copies

  1. Start a chat with Version Story selected, from Try in chat on the plugin's page or the Plugins menu below the message box.

  2. Attach the original and each edited copy.

  3. Say which file is the original and whose copy is whose:

    Merge Alice's and Bob's edits of Original.docx. Label the revisions Alice and Bob.

ChatGPT returns one Word document that carries both sets of changes, each attributed to its author.

If you do not say which file is the original and the file names do not make it clear, ChatGPT asks before it merges.

When the drafts have no shared original

If two people each wrote their own draft from scratch, there is nothing to merge against. Ask ChatGPT to combine them instead: "Combine these two drafts. Label the first Alice and the second Bob." You get one Word draft with each author's contribution marked.

What can be merged

Word documents and PDFs. Spreadsheets cannot be merged.