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Compare Suite is an effective tool to contrast RTF docs

February 6th, 2010

Comparison of files and folders is a necessity nowadays. The Internet is full of information and we use much data in our work and most businesses cannot function without IT support. The information changes all the time. There is no contract or agreement that stays the same for ages. Our life is changing rapidly with development of the Internet and IT technologies.

Why would anyone need to compare files and folders? Well, there may be dozens of reasons. Imagine that you are an office clerk who has to compare 4 versions of the same contact. Each version was drafted by either business partners or neighboring department. All documents have one common ancestor but their contents may differ. Your job is to track differences as every minor detail may turn things upside down.

Forget about manual comparison. You do not have the right to make mistakes or miss something. In order to feel sure that you have tracked ALL differences between the docs you need to use a reliable file compare solution like Compare Suite from AKS-LABS.

Contrast rtf files with Compare Suite

Contrast rtf files with Compare Suite

Use Compare Suite to integrate changes in RFT files

Use Compare Suite to integrate changes in RFT files

One of the key advantages of Compare Suite is the fact that this program supports all major files types. As known, documents are the most popular files used by office employees. All important documents are stored as text files. Thus, Compare Suite will have no problem with opening text files such as RTF docs (rich text format).

Compare Suite has a converter which makes it possible to correctly open rtf files. Such file types are often used in offices alongside with MS Office docs.  Compare Suite can easily contrast rtf docs. So, what is a general procedure?

The first thing you need to do is to run Compare Suite is a file compare mode. Then you should open two files you want to compare. If these are rtf files then make sure RTF converter is on (Tools-Options-Plugins-RTF).

As soon as Compare Suite opens the docs you will immediately see changes. The program uses different colors to mark added, deleted and modified words. Moreover, you can use several comparison methods: char by char, word by word and by key words. If the documents you are comparing are very different then use comparison by key words. If there are only a few changes in them, then char by char and word by word comparison would be perfect.

Comparison results can be saved in the report which format you can choose.

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