This is suitable for programmers or users who often need to write or modify codes or articles. That’s it, now restart the WinMerge and open the different word files to compare and you can also compare other Microsoft office documents.WinMerge is a free open-source file comparing/merging application designed for Windows, with which we can compare the contents of multiple documents or even the differences between folders.

Copy amb_xdocdiffPlugin.dll files to MergePlugins folder.

Copy xdoc2txt.exe and zlib.dll files to WinMerge installed folder (same dll file available in WinMerge program folder, so you have to replace the dll files).

Download xdocdiffPlugin from this website.

Run the setup and select Plugin in select components wizard.Following steps guide you to how to properly install xdocdiffPlugin WinMerge Plugin, latest version WinMerge only support this plugin, so you have to download at least WinMerge 2.8.6 stable version.

Xdocdiff WinMerge open source plugin compare many files such as Rich text, word, Excel, power point, PDF and many more files. You can also compare folders, subfolder files with tree style view and maintain version control features of creating patch files and resolve conflict files.īy default WinMerge tool will not support to a word, excel files comparison so how can you compare Microsoft office files? This is the flexible editor with syntax highlighting with line numbers, also by using this, you can compare regular expression based file filter as your needs. WinMerge tool is very useful for comparing the changes in different version documents, by using this find out mass changes in the different documents also you can easy to move one document to another document.

Winmerge compare folder tree