Comparison of Word documents. How to implement?

Question

Programming

There are 2 text documents with a curved encoding, it turned out to open correctly only in ms word. There are tables in documents of various formats, which have gone and not completed, and an extremely large volume. It is necessary to compare the numbers from the column of one document with the numbers in the second. How to implement advise?

Answer 1

if it works only in word and this is not a one-time job, then do everything using the office itself, coding the logic in VB

Answer 2

Depends on how much the structure of the documents differs.
In principle, it is possible with standard Word tools.