I was discussing the compare changes feature recently for a legal client and they raised a valid limitation with the compare changes functionality in respect to document versioning.

Currently it is possible to compare changes between Word documents but only if they are versions of the same document. However, in this case the user would draft a document, send via email for review by a third party who would suggest changes and make some amendments before sending back to the original author so we now have two separate documents. If the user saves the updated document to Laserfiche they are not easily able to add it as a newer version and thus compare changes. The upload new version button only allows us to select a document from the Windows folder structure so they would have to then save the document back out of Laserfiche in order to add as a new version.

It would be better if we could specify a document within Laserfiche to compare changes against rather than limiting it to versions (though I appreciate this is logical in most cases), and/or allow the upload new version function to browse Laserfiche folders also.