What's new in xlCompare 10.5

Every day our developers work on xlCompare. We implement new features and improve existing ones. In this article we would like to give you complete information on changes included into xlCompare 10.5.

3-way comparison is an ultimate feature for external diff and merge tools for Excel files (XLSX\XLSM\XLS\...). If you are working in the team environment and your Excel files are stored in the version control system - you need external diff viewer to view changes and to resolve merge conflicts.

Imagine you've get your version from the repository and modified it. At the same time your colleague modified it and committed his changes. Now you have merge conflict. You can't commit your modifications without resolving changes.

xlCompare will do this work quickly and effectively.

As you already know xlCompare has command line mode, that allows to compare Excel files by passing them as arguments to xlCompare application.

We've extended set of command line options and added ability to merge modifications from one excel file into another silently.

We've improved algorithms used in xlCompare to detect and process Primary Key columns and rows.

In the comparison report mode rows are aligned one versus one, on the worksheet. This improves readability of the report. In this update we've made alignment algorithm better and implemented it for unsorted data also.

We've found some problems with XLSX file format, that has being solved in this update.

In this version we've solved issue when xlCompare read incorrectly some types of formulas from the XLSX files.

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