Version detection now reads Word’s own revision history

Jun 27, 2026

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Documentor

Documentor's version-detection moved from groundwork to a working capability for Microsoft Office documents – it now recognizes when Word files are revisions of one another by reading the revision history Word quietly records inside every document, and groups them into version families.

  • Documentor now identifies related versions of Word documents from the revision-tracking metadata Microsoft Word embeds in each file – so it recognizes revisions of the same document even when the filenames are inconsistent or unhelpful.
  • Related versions are grouped into 'families', so a tangle of similarly-named copies is seen as one ordered lineage – the basis for tidying them into a single clean version sequence.
  • Coverage spans the whole Word family – standard documents, macro-enabled files, and templates – and the detection runs automatically as part of the normal folder scan, reusing its results on later scans.
  • The work is backed by a thorough automated test suite and a shared clustering engine, with every change isolated on a feature branch and verified green before release.