This repository contains examples that illustrates how to compare two DOCX format documents and highlight the changes, such as insertions, deletions, and formatting, as tracked changes programmatically in C#. The .NET Word Library (DocIO) compares two Word documents with just few lines of code and also it does not require Microsoft Word application to be installed in the machine.
- Set Author and Date - Compare the two Word documents by setting the author and date for revisions to identify the changes.
- Ignore format changes - Compare two Word documents by ignoring the format changes.
The Syncfusion® DocIO is a .NET Word Library allows you to add advanced Word document processing functionalities to any .NET application and does not require Microsoft Word application to be installed in the machine. It is a non-UI component that provides a full-fledged document instance model similar to the Microsoft Office COM libraries to iterate with the document elements explicitly and perform necessary manipulation.
- Support to create Word document from scratch.
- Support to open (read), modify and save existing Word documents.
- Advanced Mail merge support with different data sources.
- Ability to create or edit Word 97-2003 and later version documents (DOCX), and convert them to commonly used file formats such as RTF, WordML, TXT, HTML and vice versa.
- Ability to export a Word document as an Image and PDF
- Ability to merge and split Word documents.
- Support to compare two DOCX format documents.
- Ability to create and manipulate charts, Shapes, and Group shape in DOCX and WordML format documents.
- Ability to read and write Built-In and Custom Document Properties.
- Ability to find and replace text with its original formatting.
- Ability to insert Bookmarks and navigate corresponding bookmarks to insert, replace, and delete content.
- Support to insert and edit the form fields.
- Support to protect the document to restrict access to the elements present within the document.
- Ability to encrypt and decrypt Word documents.
- Support to insert and extract OLE objects.
- Support to run the DocIO applications in multi-thread and its thread safe.
- Microsoft Word 97-2003
- Microsoft Word 2007
- Microsoft Word 2010
- Microsoft Word 2013
- Microsoft Word 2016
- Microsoft Word 2019
- Microsoft 365
- Creates, reads, and edits popular text file formats like DOC, DOT, DOCM, DOTM, DOCX, DOTX, HTML, RTF, TXT, Markdown and XML (WordML).
- Converts Word documents also to PDF, Image, and ODT files.
- Download this project to a location in your disk.
- Open the solution file using Visual Studio.
- Rebuild the solution to install the required NuGet packages.
- Run the application.
- Product page: Syncfusion® Word Framework
- Documentation: Compare Word documents using Syncfusion® Word Library
- Online demo: Syncfusion® Word Library - Online demos
- GitHub Examples: Syncfusion® Word Library examples
- Blog: Syncfusion® Word Library - Blog
- Knowledge Base: Syncfusion® Word Library - Knowledge Base
- Ebooks: Syncfusion® Word Library - Ebooks
- FAQ: Syncfusion® Word Library - FAQ
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