Need difference viewer for two Word (2003) documents ?

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Goran Ivanic

I have two word (2003) documents which seems to be very similar.
But possibly there some textual differences between them.

Unfortunately one of the two version could have been saved later again without any changes or only with minor
font changes. Hence CRC hash resp. binary change detection tools do not help in such a case.

What I need is a tool which stripes all layout parts ("Lasts saved dates" "Properties", "bold chars markers",...)
an compares only the pure textual contents side-by-side.

Does someone know such a tool ?

Goran
 
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Jay Freedman

It's built into Word. On the Tools menu, click "Compare and Merge
Documents".

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Glenn Holliday

Goran said:
What I need is a tool which stripes all layout parts ("Lasts saved dates" "Properties", "bold chars markers",...)
an compares only the pure textual contents side-by-side.
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Does Word's Compare show you enough of what you need?
Tools/Compare and Merge merges another document into the
current one. Track Changes will show you the changes the
merge made (these are the differences). If you only want
to look at the differences, be careful not to save after
the merge.
 
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Robert M. Franz (RMF)

Hello Goran

Goran said:
I have two word (2003) documents which seems to be very similar.
But possibly there some textual differences between them.

Unfortunately one of the two version could have been saved later again without any changes or only with minor
font changes. Hence CRC hash resp. binary change detection tools do not help in such a case.

What I need is a tool which stripes all layout parts ("Lasts saved dates" "Properties", "bold chars markers",...)
an compares only the pure textual contents side-by-side.
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In Word: Save as: TXT.

Then any serious text editor can DIFF the result (you could even try
Word's compare function on the resulting text files).

HTH
Robert
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Have you tried Tools | Compare and Merge Documents?



Goran Ivanic said:
I have two word (2003) documents which seems to be very similar.
But possibly there some textual differences between them.

Unfortunately one of the two version could have been saved later again
Click to expand...
without any changes or only with minor
font changes. Hence CRC hash resp. binary change detection tools do not help in such a case.

What I need is a tool which stripes all layout parts ("Lasts saved dates"
Click to expand...
"Properties", "bold chars markers",...)
 
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Beth Melton

Please see replies to your post in microsoft.public.office.misc.

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Pop`

Goran said:
I have two word (2003) documents which seems to be very similar.
But possibly there some textual differences between them.

Unfortunately one of the two version could have been saved later
again without any changes or only with minor font changes. Hence CRC
hash resp. binary change detection tools do not help in such a case.

What I need is a tool which stripes all layout parts ("Lasts saved
dates" "Properties", "bold chars markers",...) an compares only the
pure textual contents side-by-side.

Does someone know such a tool ?

Goran
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Have you checked the Revisions tab in Properties to see if it's any help?
 
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