Overview
The 'Compare Word Documents' Power Automate action allows you to compare Microsoft Word and PDF documents. The action returns a new Microsoft Word (docx) document which details the differences between the documents compared.
The following file types are supported for comparison:
- docx
- dotx
- doc
- dot
- docm
- dotm
- rtf
Credit Count
This action consumes 1 credit per operation.
Note, different Encodian actions can consume different number credits. Please always check the action specific documentation and read What is an Encodian Action for a full description of how credits are consumed.
Default Parameters
The default 'Compare Word Documents' flow action parameters are detailed below:
- File Content One: A Base64 encoded representation of the first file to compare.
- File Content Two: A Base64 encoded representation of the PDF file to be processed.
Please refer to the Obtaining the 'File Contents' Parameter article for guidance on how to obtain a 'File Content' parameter ready to provide to an Encodian flow action.
Advanced Parameters
The advanced 'Compare Word Documents' Power Automate action parameters are detailed below:
- Author: Set the name of the author used to denote differences in the output document
- Ignore Formatting: Specifies whether to ignore document formatting differences
- Case Insensitive: Specifies whether to compare differences in documents as case insensitive
- Ignore Comments: Specifies whether to compare differences in comments
- Ignore Tables: Specifies whether to compare the differences in data contained in tables
- Ignore Fields: Specifies whether to compare differences in fields. By default fields
- Ignore Footnotes: Specifies whether to compare differences in footnotes and endnotes
- Ignore Textboxes: Specifies whether to compare differences in the data contained within text boxes
- Ignore Headers and Footers: Specifies whether to compare differences in the data contained within headers and footers
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