A LITTLE GUIDANCE GOES A LONG WAY

Make sense of the differences.

Practical guides for comparing text wherever you work.

How to compare two texts and review the differences

Choose the right comparison mode, understand additions and deletions, and review two versions of text without losing the details.

Compare two Excel cells with equality or EXACT, label matching rows, and understand when you need a text difference tool instead.

Install ComparePlus in Notepad++, select your original and changed files, and compare them. Learn how this differs from Windows Notepad.

Use VS Code’s built-in file comparison to inspect two files or compare unsaved text. No comparison extension is required.

Compare copied document text, reduce false differences, and check the layout and content that a text comparison cannot verify.