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Originally Posted by PeterT
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I'm familiar with Beyond Compare. I believe a version is bundled as a plugin with JPSoftware's
Take Command GUI CMD.EXE replacement tool. (I use the freeware TCC-LE character mode version. I don't need what full Take Command offers.) I'm not familiar with Guiffy.
What I run here is the open source
WinMerge which is open source, cross platform, and runs in Windows and Linux.
An outfit called Component Software used to offer a diff tool for Windows that could handle Word and Excel files, back when MS was still using proprietary binary formats for the files. CS no longer exists.
But with a variant of XML as the underlying file format for MS Office files, and OpenOffice/LibreOffice following suit, life
should be simpler.
XML files are text based formats, and it ought to be possible to store and version them in something like git. I haven't seen solutions specifically intended for that, but I've had no cause to look. I have a current version of LO, and an older version of MS Office installed here, but seldom have cause to use either.
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Dennis