Data Compare Menus

Following is a description of the Data Compare commands, in addition to the common menu items. Most of these commands are available as toolbar buttons. From the Tools menu, select Customize Commands to define your own keyboard shortcuts, and hide or expose commands on the menus and toolbars. Commands shown below with an asterisk (*) are hidden by default.

The Session menu:

	Session Settings	Opens the Data Compare Session Settings dialog.
	Swap Sides	Exchanges the left and right files.
	Reload Files	Reloads the displayed files.
	Recompare Files	Recompares the displayed files.
	Compare in New View Using	Opens the displayed files in a new session using a different class of file viewer.
	Compare Parent Folders in New View	Opens a new Folder Compare session based on the parent folders of the currently loaded files.
	Data Compare Report	Produces the Data Compare report.
	Data Compare Info	Displays comparison statistics.

The File menu:

	Open File	Opens an existing file into the selected pane.
	Open Clipboard	Loads the Clipboard contents into the selected pane.
	Open With	Opens the selected pane's file in one of the external Open With applications.
	Explorer	Displays the Windows Explorer context menu for the file in the selected pane.

The Edit menu:

	Copy	Copies selected rows to clipboard.
	Select All	Selects all visible rows in the current pane.

The Search menu:

	Next Difference Row	Positions at next difference row.
	Previous Difference Row	Positions at previous difference row.
	Next Difference Files	Opens the parent folder session's next pair of files with differences. (Child sessions only.)
	Previous Difference Files	Opens the parent folder session's previous pair of files with differences. (Child sessions only.)
	Copy File to Right and Open Next Difference	Copies the entire left-side file to the right and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
	Copy File to Left and Open Next Difference	Copies the entire right-side file to the left and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
	Find	Searches for matching text.
	Find Next	Finds next occurrence of search string.
	Find Previous	Finds previous occurrence of search string.
	Go To	Positions at specified row and column.

The View menu:

	Show All	Shows all rows, with or without differences.
	Show Differences	Shows only rows with differences.
	Show Same	Shows only matching rows.
	Show None *	Hides all lines.
	Ignore Unimportant Differences	Treats unimportant differences as same.
	Resize Columns to Fit	Makes columns wide enough for data to be fully visible.
	Columns	Shows or hides columns.
	Visible Whitespace	Shows or hides visible spaces, tabs.
	Row Numbers	Shows or hides row numbers.
	Display Font *	Selects the font to use to display file data.
	Side-by-side Layout	Arranges panes side-by-side.
	Over-under Layout	Arranges panes above and below each other.
	Thumbnail View	Shows or hides the thumbnail summary of changes at left of view.
	Row Details	Shows or hides the row details panel at bottom of view.
	File Info	Shows or hides file information panels at the top of panes.

* Hidden by default. Use Tools > Customize Commands to show this command on menus or toolbars.