Good afternoon dear friends! As a result of creating a text file, we have to subject it to multiple changes. And it is noteworthy that some non-final version of the document can be agreed upon Z for those interested L face 1. As a result, the final text file, which is agreed upon by another ZL 2, may differ significantly from the previously agreed upon version ZL 1 . And such situations can be repeated every day. A Z L maybe 10. Let's study a tool that will protect us and partially automate the process of comparing two documents.

How to compare two documents simultaneously in Word?

Continuing the training course Microsoft Word I'll tell you how to compare two text documents for differences at the same time. Knowledge of this function of the MC Word editor will help you make sure that the concept of the text has not changed, or vice versa, find out what and where exactly has changed. Each character (letter, punctuation mark, even space) will be highlighted during the comparison procedure directly in the document. So let's go...

Let's take as an example the most complex tongue twister that I have come across, and chaotically change the words in different parts of our document, so that I can show how to compare two text file. I will name one of the documents (the original one) “1”, and the other “2”.

How to compare two Word documents and highlight changes?

1. First, let's open Microsoft program Word
2. Go to the tab "Review", In chapter "Comparison" press "Compare"

1. A drop-down window appears in front of you "Comparison of versions" into which you now need to upload two types of documents: original and modified.

1. After you have selected two versions of the text document, click “OK”

1. The comparison results will open in a new window, and it will look something like this:

All deleted and inserted words will appear in the highlighted square with the number “1”. To the right, the area with the number “2” Shows the document being compared with the presence in the text and the words deleted and inserted in their place. The workspace with the number "3" shows us the original document (before making edits), while the space with the number "4" shows us the modified document with the edits made.

1. The remaining working field numbered “5” is a set of tools necessary for editing the final version of the document being developed.

By clicking “Accept”/“Reject” for the first time, you select the word that you will accept or reject, by clicking the second time you will change to one of the proposed options.

Red crossed out words are marked for deletion, and red underlined words will be replaced.

How to compare two documents if there is no Word?

What to do if you don’t have Word at hand. Many people having in stock the most common text editor, are unaware of its enormous potential beyond text formatting. And if you don’t remember how to compare or you have a different text editor, then there is only one way out: mark the words marked for deletion/insertion in one of the following ways:

— fill the text with red color for deleting, green for adding (you can choose arbitrary colors, but for this operation these are the most common ones).

— cross out deleted text/underline inserted text, etc.

Suddenly, if you want to download Microsoft Word, then go to the following link:

If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Word, then go here

For all other questions you can ask in the comments.

Laziness is the engine of progress, no matter how strange it may sound, some inventions greatly simplify our lives. In my article I want to tell you how to compare two files in accessible ways.
I decided to write about this after one case when I needed to find out what changes the developers made to the procedure for the database during a new update.

And two programs that have been with me for a long time helped me with this:
1.Total Commander
2. Notepad++

Comparing files in TotalCommander

Let's say we already have two files that we need to compare.
1.Then select them in TotalCommander

2. Go to the FILE menu — -> Compare by content.

3. In the window that opens, we have two areas in each of which the contents of the files are visible.

As a result, lines with changes are highlighted in gray, specific differences are highlighted in red.

To move to the next block of differences or return to the previous one in TotalCommander, there are “Next difference” and “Previous difference” buttons in the menu. Here you can activate the editing mode by clicking the “Edit” button, after which you can change the font, copy lines from window to window, and in case of an erroneous action there is a saving “Rollback” button.

After editing, the program will ask what to do with the files: save or not save.

Comparing files in Notepad++

Notepad++ in my opinion is the best notepad that everyone should have. It has great functionality that can be expanded with plugins.

So, how can Notepad++ help us compare files? The answer is simple: you need to download the required plugin.

Open the item “Plugins” -> “Plugin Manager” -> “Show Plugin Manager”.

A large list of various plugins will appear in the manager that opens. Select " Compare " and install.

1. open two files in Notepad++.
2. We make sure that both files are open in tabs next to each other.
3. On the menu bar, go to Plugins -> Compare -> Compare, or use the hot keys – Alt + D and launch the plugin.

In the window that opens, as in TotalComander, We have two areas in each of which the contents of the files are visible.

Red minuses - what was deleted,

Yellow exclamation marks- what has changed.

Exiting Compare mode via the Plugins menu –> Compare – > Clear Results, or Ctrl + Alt + D.

When working with text documents, you often have to compare them by content. This need arises if several people worked on the document or the document was sent to the teacher for approval and editing; you need to quickly find all the changes made by the other party. But the user himself can create several copies of the document and get confused: which version is the latest, and what corrections were made. Let's consider all the possibilities for quick and, most importantly, automatic comparison of two documents.

1. Comparison of two documents in MSWord (starting from MSWord 2007, 2010, 2013)

Let's use the function Legal Note, which allows automatic comparison of documents.

Launch the MS Word program. Open a tab on the ribbon Review, select a section Compare and open possible options teams Compare…(look at Figure 1), select the first command - Comparing two versions of a document (Legal Note).

Figure 1 Starting automatic COMPARISON of two text documents

A window will open in which you specify the path to store the original and modified documents. To specify the path, you must use the yellow folder icon, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 Appearance Version comparison windows

Command button More>>(Figure 2) provides more additional settings display (highlight) the changes made. When activated, the window Version comparisons will take the following form (see Figure 3)

Figure 3 Additional features when automatically comparing text documents

In the window that opens, in the section Comparison options Check the boxes for the changes that need to be displayed during the automatic comparison of documents.

Default window Comparisons as follows.

Figure 4. Window for automatically comparing two versions of a document

Let's look at the areas of the automatic document comparison window in Legal note.

• On the left is given Fix Summary: what exactly was corrected and by whom (if the username is specified in Word settings).
• In the center - Comparable document– a document with corrections made (shown in red: adding and deleting words).
• Top right: original document, and lower - modified document.

Reconciliation area Patch Summary can be configured as a horizontal review panel. To do this, you must execute the following commands sequentially: insert Review => Review Area => Horizontal Review Bar.

Figure 5. Setting up the Horizontal Review Panel

In this case, the window for automatically comparing two documents will look like this:

Figure 6. Window for automatic comparison of documents with a horizontal review panel

You can navigate through corrections using the left mouse button by clicking on the text in the desired place in the document, or using the Tab Review - Scope of review.

Figure 7 Working with the CHANGE option

The identified changes must either Accept so that it remains in the modified document and no longer appears as a correction, or Reject, if you don't agree. You can navigate through the corrections using the following keys: Back And Further(see Figure 7).

To reject or accept all corrections, use the command Accept (or Reject). Using the left mouse button, open the list of options for the Accept/Reject command (down arrow) and select the one you need from the proposed options, for example: Apply (Reject) all changes in the document.

Figure 8 ACCEPT command window

2. Comparing two blocks of text in an Internet browser

When comparing the contents of two documents, you can also use specialized services provided by Internet browsers. They are convenient for determining differences in the texts of both English-language documents and when working with Russian-language texts, for example: Text-Compare (http://text-compare.com/), TextDiff (http:// www.textdiff.com/) and Quick Diff (http://www.quickdiff.com/). With their help, you can compare text fragments, tables, and even program code.

Let's briefly consider the technology for comparing documents in each of the three recommended services. What they all have in common is placing the two fragments into their respective windows and then initiating the comparison process.

Text-Compare(http://text-compare.com/). To compare two fragments in this service, just copy these fragments into the corresponding windows, and then start the comparison process (command button Compare). Fragments of text that are different, as well as those missing from one of the compared documents, will be highlighted (differences are highlighted in color when comparing tables; in program codes, when comparing, lines with differences are additionally marked).

Figure 9 Text-Compare windows before and after the comparison operation

TextDiff(http://www.textdiff.com/). The service window consists of two windows in which the compared fragments of text, table or program code are placed.

Figure 10 TextDiff service window

The results of displaying the comparison process using TextDiff represent one the resulting fragment, in which the text that appeared in the second fragment (that is, absent in the first) is highlighted in green, and the deleted text is highlighted in red.

Let's compare with the previous service: when comparing text blocks and small tables, this result can be convenient; when comparing large tables, this result is difficult to read the differences, since the differences found are displayed line by line in text format without line numbers and maintaining the visibility of the columns.

Figure 11 Comparison results using the TextDiff service

The principle of presenting results in Quick Diff is exactly the same as in TextDiff. The difference is that the data removed from the second fragment is not only displayed in a different color, but is also crossed out. At the same time, a problem is added to the difficulties of text comparison - incorrect recognition of the Cyrillic alphabet (see Figure 12).

Figure 12. Quick Diff service window after performing the comparison operation

Let's summarize:

1. the Text-Compare service can be used to compare texts, tables and program code without any restrictions;
2. the TextDiff service can be used to compare texts, program codes and small tabular fragments;
3. The Quick Diff service perfectly compares texts (not in Russian), program codes and can be used to compare small tabular fragments.

The material was prepared by L.A. Shutilina, methodologist of the State Medical Center for Dog and Medical Medicine

To update the parent. The problem was that I made changes to the style.css file parent theme. And, of course, I don’t remember what exactly I changed there (and I don’t need to remember it).

But then the moment came when a new version themes for WordPress. Of course, I wanted to see what was new there. But, before updating it, we first needed to save the changes made to the styles. Therefore, I had to remember the name of the program that compares files.

WinMerge

Previously, I used the desktop program WinMerge (winmerge.org). It was a big help when you needed to compare two files. This is what its interface looks like. Sophisticated, cool, programmer.

But there is something simpler.

Quick Diff

But I was too lazy to search for WinMerge on my computer, so I decided to use the wonderful online service “Quick Diff”. He helped to quickly conduct a comparative analysis of two fragments of text and find all the differences.

Advantages of the online service

1. Simple and intuitive interface.
2. Comparison of files occurs in a matter of seconds.
3. No pre-registration.
4. There is no need to download or install anything.
5. Absolutely free.

How to compare two text fragments

To compare, just copy the desired fragments into the corresponding Left and Right fields (no difference) and click the button

The result will be below, under the Output heading.

Explanations

What is not in the updated file is highlighted in red, and changes made to the original file are highlighted in green.

But in in this example, the only difference is that the modified fragment contains spaces at the beginning of the line. That's why it's highlighted in green. Perhaps this code was cut out, but then when I pasted it back, it turned out with an offset and extra spaces appeared.

Fragment of compared files in the online service “Quick Diff” (www.quickdiff.com)

In general, be careful and see which changes are significant and meaningful to you. Here I showed an example of using the service to compare two style files. But you can use this service to compare what edits the proofreader made to the text, yes, you never know what it will be useful for.

Compare is one of the most useful plugins. And if you need to compare 2 files in Notepad++, compare is what you need.

In order to compare files in notepad++, let’s check if the plugin is installed. To do this, open the plugins tab. If it is not installed, go to the Plugin Manager: Plugins - Plugin Manager - Compare - Install. After installing the plugin, the editor will reboot.

In notepad++, comparing files is quite simple: open the two files that need to be compared, press Ctrl+Alt+1 or perform an action in the menu.

After this, we have three sections of the window: the first file, the second and the Compare NavBar in which differences in documents, if any, are graphically marked. Thus, we compared two files Notepad++ editor.

In notepad++, comparing two files turned out to be quite simple, as you can see, the notepad++ editor compares files line by line with line highlighting different code. For me, as for many webmasters, this editor is the best.