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Author Topic: Word document compare?  (Read 14638 times)

superboyac

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Word document compare?
« on: May 20, 2009, 10:58 AM »
What are some good software for comparing Word documents?

AndyM

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2009, 11:39 AM »
Word includes tools to compare documents. 
Tools > Compare & Merge Documents..., at least in Word 2002

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2009, 11:46 AM »
Cool, I'll check it out, thanks.

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2009, 12:05 PM »
2superboyac

IIRC there is also plugin for WinMerge somewhere in the web. I can find it if you want to :)

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2009, 12:06 PM »
2superboyac

IIRC there is also plugin for WinMerge somewhere in the web. I can find it if you want to :)
-fenixproductions (May 20, 2009, 12:05 PM)
Will do that as well, thank you.

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2009, 05:31 AM »
CSDiff, freeware by Component Software, can compare RTFs, but not (IIRC) *.DOC.

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2009, 06:19 AM »
Adobe Air powered, sharing features, web based or desktop version. Free for personal use.

http://www.textflow.com/

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2009, 07:25 AM »
Beyond Compare can compare Word files, it does it by converting them to text and comparing that, which may not be what you want.

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2009, 08:26 AM »
it's a jibz post!

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2009, 11:12 AM »
Hang on all this levity is a bit off topic  :onfire:

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2009, 11:47 AM »
i just tend to celebrate whenever Jibz posts.. he is member #3, created the amazing Dina font, and he's just all around awesome :)

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Re: Word document compare?
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2009, 03:19 PM »
It's all done with mirrors :-[