First, in addition to comparing files on your hard drive or network, you can specify files from a remote service, compare internal archive files, or the contents of a web page.
Secondly, you can also compare the text saved on the clipboard. Click the inverted triangle button on the right side of the "Open File" icon to expand the corresponding menu. The menu options include: opening files on the file system and using configuration files to open files. , open the clipboard and select the file opening method. In addition, click the "File" button on the toolbar and select the "Open Clipboard" option in the expanded menu.
Beyond Compare Text Compare Session File Button Menu Legend
Beyond Compare text comparison session Two editor pane views display the compared files, with different text colors emphasizing the differences between the files. By default, the color scheme uses red to mark important differences, which can perform operations such as insertion, deletion, and modification, and blue to mark unimportant differences, where text comparison rules can be set through session settings and file formats.
The text comparison editor pane display background is also colored to help you better spot differences. A certain red background indicates an important difference, while a light blue background indicates an unimportant difference. The red background takes precedence over the light blue, making it easy to spot the difference even though they are horizontal scroll views.
You can adjust the custom background color to suit your preferences by clicking the "Tools" button, selecting the "Options" tab in the expanded menu, switching to the "Colors, Fonts" directory, the File View page, and finding the Compare Color settings, Customize the display color of the text and background of the text comparison window and click the "Apply" button to complete the setting.
Beyond Compare text comparison tool menu options window interface legend
Displayed on the left edge of the editor pane are optional thumbnails that represent the color of each line comparison, one pixel high, allowing you to see the entire pattern's diff comparison at a glance. The white rectangle represents the current view, and the small triangle represents the current row. Click the thumbnail row position to control the position of the editor view row.
Through understanding the above content, I believe it will help you better use Beyond Compare for text comparison. Beyond Compare is a useful text comparison tool and a practical code comparison tool.
