Comparing Word documents....

Johnny_the_fox

I am wondering if there is any program avaliable to compare two word documents? <which are in the old irish, which shouldnt matter!?!>

they are more or less the same document but one has changes like the example below in english.....

Document 1 - "In the field the bull is"
Document 2 - "the bull is in the field"



thanks



*if in wrong forum please move

Skyclad

What differences exactly do you need to be able to determine? Telling if 2 files are different is one thing, telling if sentences are different from others is another thing completely...

Dave

davej

why don't you use the "compare documents" option under the tools menu (tools->track changes->Compare Documents)? Check word help for more info.

Other than that, I suggest you save the files as plaintext and use any one of a myriad of tools (or just unix `diff`) available to do your comparisons.

davej

boo-boo

if its a once off type of thing I'd do as davej says & look at the unix/linux functions, if this is part of a more fuller featured job, then you could investigate using VSS, you can use the VSS Object model in VB/ C++ & it works very well.

Hobbes

Might want to MS/Apps forum as this kind of functionality would be built into Word.

Some kind of Team Versioning.

Johnny_the_fox

thanks..

the "compare documents" option will work ...

rubberduckey

Hi,

I find this great comparison tool and its free!!

http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.html

Cheers,

P