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ActiveX component can't create object: `Word.Application`

Open Wallby opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

I pressed File -> Open, selected two .docx files and then pressed Compare -> MS Word.. image

Then this popup showed.. image

Windows version 10.0.19045 WinMerge version 2.16.30.0 x64 installed to non windows install drive D:.

Wallby avatar Aug 03 '23 13:08 Wallby

Unfortunately, if Microsoft Word is not installed, this error will occur. Instead, please select the Apache Tika menu item or use the xdocdiff WinMerge plugin.

Related issue: https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/issues/540

sdottaka avatar Aug 03 '23 22:08 sdottaka