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Topic Title: Word files comparison
Topic Summary: Comparing Word files
Created On: 19-Jul-2007 16:49
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 19-Jul-2007 16:49
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Krishna Kandala

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Hi All,

This does not have a direct reference to DOORS, but I thought I would seek the opinion of the forum.
I do a lot of comparison of Word files - revised specification and the Word file generated from DOORS. Presently I am using Beyond Compare, which is fast, and has the word wrap feature. I can display the two files side by side for comparison and the differences (characters, NOT words) are marked in color.
The drawback is that I have to convert both the Word files to Text and take care of the tables in the format that I want them to be displayed in text.
I am looking for proper Word file comparator which has all the good features of Beyond Compare and does not need conversion to text prior to comparison.
I would appreciate to know your experience with the other packages available in the market.

- Krishna
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 20-Jul-2007 11:29
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Hazel Woodcock

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Two thoughts here, probably neither of them is what you are looking for :-)

1. I have used DOORS to compare two versions of a Word document. Import both, do nothing to them in DOORS and use the module compare wizard. This could be applied to what you are doing but it is a bit of an odd way of going about things. Take the original into DOORS, and take the exported version back into DOORS and use module compare.

2. The other comparison tool that I have been impressed with is the Adobe Acrobat compare. If you pdf both documents you can get Acrobat to mark up one with the changes in the other. I believe this feature is available in the standard reader, although I first discovered it when I had the full version.

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Hazel
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 20-Jul-2007 11:35
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Tony Goodman

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Word comes with a builtin Document compare function.
Tools > Compare and Merge Documents...

I have never used it so I can't comment on how good it is :-)

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http://www.smartdxl.com
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 20-Jul-2007 12:33
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Dmitriy Baranov

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I use for comparing version system control CS-RCS. It(CS-RCS) has tool to compare one version of file with its older version
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 23-Jul-2007 08:25
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Peter Albert

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I am using the Word builtin which Tony suggests. It works fine, and it is particular useful for creating track-changed Word versions of exported baselines. The tool just switches on Word's track-change and marks each modification as change. Then you can use the tools from the "Reviewing" toolbar to e.g. go through the changes etc.

Peter
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 24-Jul-2007 10:46
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Martin Hunter

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Word document compare works fine for me too.  The only slight issue I have with it is that it highlights changes in tables if the formatting has changed, ie cell width etc.

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 7-Aug-2007 12:07
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Andrew Tagg

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A few notes on the inbuilt word comparison tool. I have used this quite extensively over the past few years on documents generated from DOORS, with the following observations:

Word 2000:

Problem with comparison of tables: If a change occurs within a table, a change bar is applied to the whole table, rather than the individual row.

Large documents (1000+pages): Sometimes on a large document, word 2000 will just 'give up' halfway through the document, then mark the whole second half of the document as a single change.

Compound comparisons: Word 2000 does not like comparing a new document to a document which has previously been compared already. Particularly if the document contains headers & footers and landscape/portrait mix of pages. If you need to compare several revisions of a document back to the previous revision, then I would recommend saving the 'uncompared' version each time to compare back to.

Basically a very poor implementation of the compare functionality

Word 2003:

Much much better. I haven't found any great issue so far.

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 7-Aug-2007 13:31
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Tony Goodman

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quote:

Large documents (1000+pages):


Where do you buy your staplers?

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Tony Goodman

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quote:

Large documents (1000+pages):


Where do you buy your staplers?

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Dan Hopping

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The best I have found is Workshare (Deltaview). The is a MS Word compare tool that does a whole bunch more (i.e. tracking of doc authorship by multi-editors). But I only use it for compares. I have compared 1000+ page docs many times. This package is WAY more robust than Word Compare and it creates a document showing actual red-line changes between two Word document versions exported from DOORS. Occasionally, it has trouble with massive tables but I just break them up if they get too big.
It's been a life saver over the past four years. Not cheap at ~$5K for 20 seat license (the smallest package I could buy) but it's more than paid for itself.
Dan Hopping
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