Compare Microsoft Word doc file

Use Compare Suite to compare Microsoft Word and Excel files

Can Compare Suite compare word documents with marcos built into the document?

It converts .doc files to plain text, no matter what macros was used during its creation.

How can I compare .doc with another .doc files or .doc with .txt?

First, you should run Compare Suite and go to Tools->Options->MS Office. Make sure that "Converter enabled" is checked.

Then you should select one of the files to compare on the left side and another on the right. Note: you can compare two .doc files as well as compare .doc and .txt or .doc and .xls.

As Compare Suite convert .doc file to text, what text will I see?

Compare Suite's converter keeps common document structure and text, it keeps tables structure and data, it keeps hyperlinks.

For example, if you have document Sample.doc, that has the following table:

and Sample2.doc with the following table:

Note: data in two tables is different as the first table is for 2003 year and another one for 2004.

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Now we compare two word documents - sample.doc and sample2.doc:

As you can see Compare Suite converted .doc file to text and highlighted founded changes with green color.

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Having most documents in Microsoft Word (.doc) file format you need a tool to analyze two documents by comparison. Such a solution solves two main problems – it analyzes changes that have been made within two documents with common ancestor, it can monitor changes of document you have.