Compare of Variables and Document properties

GroupDocs.Comparison allows you to compare various properties of a WORD document such as Variable, Built, and Custom properties.

The following fields of the CompareOptions class are used to enable comparison functions for document properties:

CompareVariableProperty - to activate the comparison of variable properties;
CompareDocumentProperty - to activate the comparison of built and custom properties.

Following are the steps to activate compare document properties:

Instantiate Comparer object with source file path or stream;
Call Add method and specify target file path or stream;
Instantiate CompareOptions object and set CompareVariableProperty property to true (CompareDocumentProperty to true for built and custom properties);
Call Comparer method and pass CompareOptions object from previous step.

Example code block to activate comparison of Variable, Built and Custom properties

using (Comparer comparer = new Comparer(sourcePath))
{
    comparer.Add(targetPath);
    CompareOptions options = new CompareOptions();
    options.CompareVariableProperty = true; // to activate the comparison of variable properties
    options.CompareDocumentProperty = true; // to activate the comparison of built and custom properties
     
    comparer.Compare(resultPath, options);
}

The result of comparing properties

The result of comparing properties is presented on a separate page - Properties summary page.

More resources

GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

Free Online App

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You are welcome to compare your DOC or DOCX, XLS or XLSX, PPT or PPTX, PDF, EML, EMLX, MSG and other documents with free to use online GroupDocs Comparison App.

Get extended information on the summary page Compare bookmarks in Word documents