Office documents comparison with office viewers?

[RodolfoGiovanninetti]

Is it possible to compare office documents using office viewers and not full office suite?

Thank You

Rodolfo Giovanninetti

[Aaron]

Beyond Compare 3 does not require the office suite for the default MS Word file format. We do require Excel installed. We use vbscript to create and Excel object to create and save a text file, so I do not think the Viewer will be enough. If you find any subsititute program to perform a command line call that opens a file and saves it back as text, you can create a custom File Format to use that command line. Here is a KB article detailing a custom process:

http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_externalconversion.php