Compare text then highlight difference ...

[Grenier]

From ACCESS I'm using word via automation to generate a report.
Was wondering if this was possible ?

I'd like to compare 2 string and highlight only the difference between them.
Those strings can be words, phrases, paragraph or several paragraph.

Could I use Word's built-in fonctions to achieve this ? Or using some very
clever vba code ?

Merci !
JF Grenier

 

[Cindy M.]

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From ACCESS I'm using word via automation to generate a report.
Was wondering if this was possible ?

I'd like to compare 2 string and highlight only the difference between them.
Those strings can be words, phrases, paragraph or several paragraph.

Could I use Word's built-in fonctions to achieve this ? Or using some very
clever vba code ?

Well, Word has the "Compare Documents" feature that will compare the entire
content of two documents and create a result where the differences are
highlighted.

Beyond that, all you can do is have your code analyse each character in the two
strings (in a loop) and apply some kind of foramtting (or highlight) to the
characters that don't match.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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