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comparing two documents in a quantifiable way
Hi all I need to compare two Word documents using some Word feature, tool, plugin or separate utility that tells me *how much* two documents differ one from the other. Example: The text in document A is 25% different from the text in document B. Does such tool exist? thanks |
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comparing two documents in a quantifiable way
As far as I know, what you are trying to do isn't possible in Word.
What Word can do is compare documents and create a combined version with Track Changes. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ... Hi all I need to compare two Word documents using some Word feature, tool, plugin or separate utility that tells me *how much* two documents differ one from the other. Example: The text in document A is 25% different from the text in document B. Does such tool exist? thanks |
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comparing two documents in a quantifiable way
As far as I know, what you are trying to do isn't possible in Word.
What Word can do is compare documents and create a combined version with Track Changes. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP wrote in message ... Hi all I need to compare two Word documents using some Word feature, tool, plugin or separate utility that tells me *how much* two documents differ one from the other. Example: The text in document A is 25% different from the text in document B. Does such tool exist? thanks |
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comparing two documents in a quantifiable way
Stefan Blom wrote:
As far as I know, what you are trying to do isn't possible in Word. What Word can do is compare documents and create a combined version with Track Changes. Is there a way to know how many words are changed between two similar documents? Something like "X words were changed between docA and docB" ? thanks |
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Stefan Blom wrote:
As far as I know, what you are trying to do isn't possible in Word. What Word can do is compare documents and create a combined version with Track Changes. Is there a way to know how many words are changed between two similar documents? Something like "X words were changed between docA and docB" ? thanks |
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How would you describe the change of words?
"I'm considered a good cook." vs "I want to cook something good." 'good' and 'cook' appear in both sentences, yet their meaning is totally different ('cook' appears as a noun and as a verb for example). If you consider those words the same in the above sentences, you could write a macro which just keeps track of each word in your document and the number of times it occurs. Given that list, you could then count the number of times each word occurs in the other document and see how much change there is. But if you ask me, the resulting value wouldn't be expressing anything useful. Yves wrote in message ... Stefan Blom wrote: As far as I know, what you are trying to do isn't possible in Word. What Word can do is compare documents and create a combined version with Track Changes. Is there a way to know how many words are changed between two similar documents? Something like "X words were changed between docA and docB" ? thanks |
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How would you describe the change of words?
"I'm considered a good cook." vs "I want to cook something good." 'good' and 'cook' appear in both sentences, yet their meaning is totally different ('cook' appears as a noun and as a verb for example). If you consider those words the same in the above sentences, you could write a macro which just keeps track of each word in your document and the number of times it occurs. Given that list, you could then count the number of times each word occurs in the other document and see how much change there is. But if you ask me, the resulting value wouldn't be expressing anything useful. Yves wrote in message ... Stefan Blom wrote: As far as I know, what you are trying to do isn't possible in Word. What Word can do is compare documents and create a combined version with Track Changes. Is there a way to know how many words are changed between two similar documents? Something like "X words were changed between docA and docB" ? thanks |
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Yves Dhondt wrote:
How would you describe the change of words? "I'm considered a good cook." vs "I want to cook something good." 'good' and 'cook' appear in both sentences, yet their meaning is totally different ('cook' appears as a noun and as a verb for example). If you consider those words the same in the above sentences, you could write a macro which just keeps track of each word in your document and the number of times it occurs. Given that list, you could then count the number of times each word occurs in the other document and see how much change there is. But if you ask me, the resulting value wouldn't be expressing anything useful. Yves I agree with you, but in my case semantics is not a concern. I have a very simple need. I am dealing with very formalised and repetitive documents and all I need is just something that does this: Given the capability that Word 2007 already has, of comparing two documents an show what lines/words are different in the two docs, I need to simply be able to *count* how many words are different in the second documents. Can I do that, perhaps selecting somehow the "different" word in the second doc and the counting them? How can I select or capture the words that are different? thanks |
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Yves Dhondt wrote:
How would you describe the change of words? "I'm considered a good cook." vs "I want to cook something good." 'good' and 'cook' appear in both sentences, yet their meaning is totally different ('cook' appears as a noun and as a verb for example). If you consider those words the same in the above sentences, you could write a macro which just keeps track of each word in your document and the number of times it occurs. Given that list, you could then count the number of times each word occurs in the other document and see how much change there is. But if you ask me, the resulting value wouldn't be expressing anything useful. Yves I agree with you, but in my case semantics is not a concern. I have a very simple need. I am dealing with very formalised and repetitive documents and all I need is just something that does this: Given the capability that Word 2007 already has, of comparing two documents an show what lines/words are different in the two docs, I need to simply be able to *count* how many words are different in the second documents. Can I do that, perhaps selecting somehow the "different" word in the second doc and the counting them? How can I select or capture the words that are different? thanks |
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Yves Dhondt wrote:
How would you describe the change of words? "I'm considered a good cook." vs In other words my procedure would be like this: 1) compare docB against docA and 2) put different words, i.e. different lines, into docC 3) count words in docC. Is there a way to do 2), i.e. create a document that contains only what Words considers as *changed* in docb in respect to docA? Thanks |
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Yves Dhondt wrote: How would you describe the change of words? "I'm considered a good cook." vs In other words my procedure would be like this: 1) compare docB against docA and 2) put different words, i.e. different lines, into docC 3) count words in docC. Is there a way to do 2), i.e. create a document that contains only what Words considers as *changed* in docb in respect to docA? Thanks |
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comparing two documents in a quantifiable way
Run the following macro on the document created by comparing the two
documents MsgBox ActiveDocument.Revisions.Count -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Yves Dhondt wrote: How would you describe the change of words? "I'm considered a good cook." vs In other words my procedure would be like this: 1) compare docB against docA and 2) put different words, i.e. different lines, into docC 3) count words in docC. Is there a way to do 2), i.e. create a document that contains only what Words considers as *changed* in docb in respect to docA? Thanks |
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comparing two documents in a quantifiable way
Run the following macro on the document created by comparing the two
documents MsgBox ActiveDocument.Revisions.Count -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com wrote in message ... Yves Dhondt wrote: How would you describe the change of words? "I'm considered a good cook." vs In other words my procedure would be like this: 1) compare docB against docA and 2) put different words, i.e. different lines, into docC 3) count words in docC. Is there a way to do 2), i.e. create a document that contains only what Words considers as *changed* in docb in respect to docA? Thanks |
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