Differencing Word documents

If you store Microsoft Word documents under version control, you may naturally want to know what changed between one version of a Word document and another. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't provide any comparison tool to do this. But there are some third-party alternatives that can visually compare changes in Word documents:

DeltaView Personal Edition

DiffDoc

Both of these tools support command-line comparisons, which means they can be used as custom compare tool in Team System.

For DeltaView PE:

C:\Program Files\Workshare\DeltaViewPE\
DeltaVw.exe /original="c:\doc1.doc" /modified="c:\doc2.doc"

For DiffDoc:

C:\Program Files\Softinterface, Inc\DiffDoc\
wdd.exe /M c:\doc1.doc /S c:\doc2.doc

posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 10:49 AM by jatwood

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