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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/44206
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/44206
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Even if you could find a way to format dif output in HTML, that in itself would not give you the dif navigation tools that you get from a dif tool (next change, last change, etc.). One way to very quickly get a navigable WYSIWYG dif of two HTML documents (old and new) would be to open them both in Word and use the compare documents function.

This is likely to give you a more readable display, since traditional dif displays are optimized for comparing code, Word's compare documents is optimized for comparing documents.)

Oxygen XML Editor also has a XML dif utility, but your reviewers probably don't have a copy of Oxygen or any similar XML editor, but they probably do have Word.

Word would also give reviewers a simple way to add comments to the dif they are reviewing.

Apparently it is also possible to open word in compare documents mode from the command line with a little bit of code, so you might be able to automate the whole thing: [https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/fc2d1374-1542-420e-bd36-875113217bd6/can-you-initiate-word-2010-by-passing-2-documents-to-it-for-comparison-command-line-string?forum=word](https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/fc2d1374-1542-420e-bd36-875113217bd6/can-you-initiate-word-2010-by-passing-2-documents-to-it-for-comparison-command-line-string?forum=word)

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