About Compare Word
Compare Word files when a contract comes back from the other side without tracked changes, or when two people edited separate copies of the same report. Upload the original and the changed version and you get a redline report as a PDF: added text in green, deleted text in red and struck through, with both file names and a count of each at the top. With Also a Word file with tracked changes on, as it is by default, you also get a DOCX that holds every difference as a tracked change, as if the other side had edited with Track Changes on. Open it in Word and accept or reject each change on the Review tab. For two versions of a spreadsheet, Compare Excel marks every changed cell instead.
The comparison works on the words themselves, so it catches every edited clause, figure and list number. Chinese, Japanese and Korean text is compared character by character, and a paragraph added or removed as a whole shows as one change. Numbers are read as a whole, so a change from 18.6% to 19.2% shows as one edit rather than scattered digits. Formatting-only changes, like a word turned bold, aren't flagged, and headers, footers and footnotes are left out of the comparison. The PDF report and the tracked-changes file are both built from the text of the two files, so they show the words, not the page layout, and the tracked-changes file has no tables or pictures. The layout is only in your original files.
How to use Compare Word
- 1Add the original
Click Choose files and pick the older version first. Its card is labeled Original.
- 2Add the changed version
Use Add the second file for the newer copy, marked Changed. DOCX, DOC, ODT and RTF files all work.
- 3Click Compare Word
Keep Also a Word file with tracked changes ticked if you want the DOCX as well. Both documents are then compared word by word in an isolated process.
- 4Download the results
Save the PDF report, named comparison_ plus the changed file's name, and the tracked_changes_ DOCX to work through in Word.
Why use Cubfile for this
- Word-level redline
Insertions appear in green and deletions in red with a line through them, shown within the full text so you see the context.
- Changes to accept or reject
The DOCX holds every insertion and deletion as a tracked change, ready for Accept and Reject on Word's Review tab.
- Numbers read as numbers
Amounts, dates and percentages count as one unit, so 1,200 changed to 1,250 reads as a single clear edit.
- Works across formats
Compare a DOCX with a DOC, RTF or ODT copy. The text is what counts, not the file type.