 | Welcome to Compare It! |
 | About Compare It! |
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| Installing and Removing Compare It! |
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| What's New in This release? |
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| Quick Start |
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| User Interface Basics |
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| Application Window Illustration |
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| Using Compare It! |
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| Comparing files |
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| Merging Files |
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| Editing Files |
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| Setting Options |
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| General |
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| File Filters |
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| Comparison |
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| Advanced Comparison |
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| Editor |
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| Colors |
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| Language |
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| Keyboard |
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| Converters |
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| Viewers |
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| Printing and Reporting |
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| Print options |
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| Print Options: Margins |
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| Print Options: Advanced |
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| Comparison report |
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| Comparison statistics |
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| Keyboard Shortcuts, Toolbar Buttons, Menu Commands |
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| Advanced Functions |
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| Adding Shortcuts to External Applications |
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| Adaptive comparison |
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| Auto Backup |
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| Automatch rules |
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| Command Line Usage |
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| Configuration File |
 | Changes Only Mode |
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| Custom Syntax Files |
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| Defining Column Ranges |
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| Enhanced Open File |
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| File lists support |
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| Folders comparison |
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| Ignore Difference |
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| Manual Matching |
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| Merged Report |
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| Moved Sections |
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| Partial matching |
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| Profiles |
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| Result File Support |
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| Separate |
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| Unicode Support |
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| Using Compare It! with File Manager |
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| Using fixed/alternative font |
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| Using Regular Expressions |
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| Using RegExps substrings |
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| Word files comparison |
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| Excel files comparison |
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| Other file formats support |
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| Zip File Support |
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| General Information |
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| What is Shareware? |
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| How To Register |
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| Warranty and License |
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| Future Releases |
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| Other Products |
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| Frequently Asked Questions |
 | Updates and Support |
| Auto Backup |
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What is Backup folder?
Compare It! supports automatic backup creation in specified folder.
Once you activate this feature and select a backup folder to use, Compare It! will copy each file to this folder before overwriting it. Since you will probably save the same file multiple times, it will be assigned new name each time, using the following rule:
filename.ext.YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.N.ext
where
- filename.ext is the original file name
- YYYY-MM-DD is the current date
- HH:MM:SS is the current time
- N will be 1 or 2, depending whether the file was in the source or target pane in Compare It!
New: Note additional extension, added at the end of backup file name. In older versions file name ended with pane number (1 or 2). Added extension allows syntax highlighting to be used, as well as sorting by file type in file manager.
To prevent storing too many unused backup files, Compare It! will automatically delete files which are older than the number of days you specified in the General page of the Options dialog box.
Using relative path for backup
Instead of using single backup folder for all files, you may want to create backup subfolders in each folder, where your files are located. To do this, simply specify name of folder without path, like "Backup", instead of "C:\Backup".
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