ExtDiff vs PSWriteWord

ExtDiff

Compare documents using MS Word from the command line. (by ForNeVeR)

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PSWriteWord

PSWriteWord is powershell module to create Microsoft Word documents without Microsoft Word installed... (by EvotecIT)

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ExtDiff		PSWriteWord
	Project
1	Mentions	2
115	Stars	212
-	Growth	-
5.3	Activity	5.5
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
PowerShell	Language	PowerShell
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ExtDiff

Posts with mentions or reviews of ExtDiff. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-01.

Write Plain Text Files
29 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2022

Word also includes a nice GUI diffing tool for docx files. It's possible to make git diff use it using something like https://github.com/ForNeVeR/ExtDiff

PSWriteWord

Posts with mentions or reviews of PSWriteWord. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-15.

How do you read word document files using powershell?
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 15 Jan 2023

There are libraries out there that can work with the Office OpenXML (docx) formats without needing an install of Office, such as: https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteWord
$xyz.replace() messes up encoding
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 22 Aug 2022

Or my older version: https://github.com/EvotecIT/PSWriteWord

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ExtDiff and PSWriteWord you can also consider the following projects:

zonote - Cross-platform desktop note-taking app. Sticky notes with Markdown and Tabs. All in one .txt file.

PSWriteOffice - Experimental PowerShell Module to create and edit Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint documents without having Microsoft Office installed.

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custom-learning-office-365 - Microsoft Learning Pathways end user learning solution for Microsoft 365 customers.

Gollum - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.

Win11Debloat - A simple, easy to use powershell script to remove bloatware apps from windows, disable telemetry, bing in windows search aswell as perform various other changes to declutter and improve your windows experience. This script works for both windows 10 and windows 11.

obsidian-releases - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

vsteam - PowerShell module for accessing Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server (formerly VSTS or TFS)

markor - Text editor - Notes & ToDo (for Android) - Markdown, todo.txt, plaintext, math, ..

MicrosoftTeams-msinternal - This project was created from PowerShell which allows people to download the latest internal build of Microsoft Teams.

constitution - Constitution of India, in plain text (with git history)

Microsoft365DSC - Manages, configures, extracts and monitors Microsoft 365 tenant configurations