Word can show what changed after an AI rewrite
A chatbot gives you a cleaner version of a two-page instruction sheet. Now you have to work out whether it only improved the wording or quietly dropped a step. I'd compare the actual documents rather than ask the chatbot to list its own edits. If you already use desktop Word for Windows, Microsoft's existing Compare feature can help. Save the before and after as separate Word documents. Under Review → Compare, choose the original and revised versions. Include text changes, and keep ‘Show changes in’ set to a new document so neither source file gets modified. Word can display differences at word or character level. That gives you marked changes to read instead of two pages to compare from memory. For an instruction sheet, I'd start with deleted sentences: did the rewrite remove a necessary step, or just a repeated explanation? The marks won't decide that for you. This is an existing Word feature, not an AI add-on or a comparison I've tested here. If either file already contains tracked changes, read Word's warning before continuing; its comparison handles those revisions too. Keep both saved versions.
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I'd also shrink the editing request before generating a page of differences. If the opening sentence is confusing, ask for alternatives to that sentence, not a polish of the whole instruction sheet. Leave the accepted steps alone. Otherwise a small wording problem can become a full-document review, and the person checking it has to decide whether dozens of perfectly serviceable sentences needed changing. That's a limit I'd put in the request, not a guarantee that the chatbot will obey it. Compare the result anyway; a smaller intended edit gives you less to approve.
After a step is removed or moved, I’d check the references to it—even in sentences with no marked edits. In a hypothetical rewrite, “repeat step 4” could stay exactly the same while step 4 becomes a different instruction. Follow each reference in the revised file and check that it still leads to the intended action. I’d count broken references separately from wording changes: one bad pointer can send someone back through the whole sheet. That’s a review check I’d add, not a fault I’ve observed in Word or a tested AI rewrite.