Compare by keywords

Compare by keywords. Step by step.

This is a step-by-step guide on how to compare two files by keywords with Compare Suite. For more information about by keywords file comparison read about file comparison feature. Read more...

1) Run Compare Suite

Run by double clicking on it's icon on desktop. Or select Compare Suite in Start menu

2) Select "by keywords" comparison method

You can change the comparison method when you already selected files to compare. You can compare two files by keywords first, and then compare them word by word.

Comparison types and methods. Read more...

3) Compare two files
Click "Compare two new files" button to start comparison.	Click button to select files to compare.

4) Analyzing the results of comparison

Compare Suite compares two files and highlights some words. It highlights with green "common" words and with "blue" unique words. "Common" means that word appear in left and in right text. "Unique" means that keyword appear only in left or in right text.

Info Panel displays some useful information about compared documents. The similarity (by keywords) value shows if documents are similar by the number of common keywords. Info panel: read more...

Keywords tree is the most powerful tool when you do comparison by keywords. You can click "+" and see how do this keyword appears in the text, you can filter keywords by the entries number, select keywords that appears only in left or right text.

Keywords tree: read more..

5) Comparative report

You can generate comparative report for just compared files. Select "Standard report" option in File -> Reports menu.

The report contains tables of common and unique keywords, texts of files with highlighted keywords and some common information from Info Panel.

Click here to open sample .html report for compared files.