Comparing files is easy—open a file comparison window and load the files, or paste the texts, you want to compare.
Menu | File > Compare Files |
Toolbar button |
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Keyboard Shortcut | Ctrl+Shift+F |
File Selector:
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Keyboard Shortcut | Ctrl+O (when file comparison window has the input focus) |
Drag and Drop | Drag a file from the file-system browser and drop it onto one of the path entry/browse widgets or onto one of the text editors. |
Menu | Edit > Paste |
Toolbar button |
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Keyboard Shortcut | Ctrl+V |
DeltaWalker initiates the actual comparison as soon as a file is loaded, or text is pasted, into a text editor. As a result you'd get a window that looks something like this (actual editor content will be different):
Once you have content in your comparison window's editors you'd most likely want to:
DeltaWalker provides the following ways for difference navigation:
Menu | File > Navigate > Next/Previous Difference |
Toolbar button |
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Keyboard Shortcut | Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow / Ctrl+Shift+Up Arrow |
Mouse | Ctrl+Mouse Wheel |
Other |
Difference navigation mini-buttons
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DeltaWalker is capable of extracting the text content of Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org and PDF documents. When loading such files, either via drag and drop or using the file selectors, DeltaWalker will strip away their formatting and work only with their text contents. Almost always this is the type of comparison one expect to see when comparing documents.
DeltaWalker can extract text from the document/application formats:
When comparing Office documents it is often desirable to break long paragraphs at word boundaries to avoid horizontal scrolling. You can control this functionality from Preferences > File Comparison > Editing page.
Please note that text from Word document tables is not extracted. Once extracted, the text cannot be saved back into its original file, however you can easily save it as plain text.