Compare Two Word Documents for Differences

Compare two word documents for differences in C#

In a situation where you need to compare large size word files that are similar to each other, but have slight differences that you would like to know about.Therefore, finding these changes manually is quite a time-consuming process. GroupDocs.Comparison for .NET (which is a part of Conholdate.Total for .NET) provides you many options to compare a wide range of supported file formats.

After comparing the two Word files, you will get a resulting document in which the changes are highlighted in three different colors:

Elements that were inserted in the first file. – blue, by default
Elements wich were deleted from the first file – red, by default
Elements that have changed their styles (font, color, etc.) – green, by default

Source / Target / Result Words files
Source
Target
Result

Compare two word documents example

	string sourcePath = @"source.doc"; // NOTE: Path to the source word document
	string targetPath = @"target.doc"; // NOTE: Path to the target word document
	string resultPath = @"result.doc"; // NOTE: Path to the result word document

	using (Comparer comparer = new Comparer(sourcePath))
	{
	comparer.Add(targetPath);
	CompareOptions compareOptions = new CompareOptions
	{
	DetectStyleChanges = true,
	DetalisationLevel = DetalisationLevel.High
	};
	comparer.Compare(resultPath, compareOptions);
	}

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