Basic usage of Beyond compare

In the daily work of many friends will encounter some complex files to do the right thing, if there is a software to help us compare automatically, then we are much easier. Beyond Compare Chinese version is such a software. As a professional text comparison tool, Beyond compare is easy to operate and powerful. Some beginners in the use of the process will inevitably have some doubts, in response to this situation, we would like to share with you beyond compare basic usage?

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Steps to download beyond compare software, we can go to beyond compare Chinese official website for downloading, the current version has been updated to 4.1.3, you can choose the Windows, Linux or Mac system under your own operating system beyond Compare 4 Simplified Chinese version.

Step two install the Beyond compare software. Installation process is relatively simple, after installation we open the software, found that the software can be compared to more than files, as well as folders, MP3, pictures and so on, visible beyond compare function or relatively powerful, below we will apply it.

Beyond Compare Software Main interface Example

Step three first we look at the comparison of folders. To test, we created two new folders, the files in the same, some different. With the software open two folders we can see the black, red and blue Three colors of the file. Where the black represents the same on both sides of the file, blue for one side without the other side of the file, red for both sides have this file, but not exactly the same.

Sample Folder Comparison interface

Step four careful friends will find that the same name of the file may be black, the right side of the red, according to the above definition of black and red is not a contradiction? In fact, it is not contradictory, the black file is generally created or modified earlier, and the red file is created or modified later, so that it is helpful to identify the last modified file, so that we can do the file replacement.

File color display different examples

Step five for the black and red people should have a preliminary understanding, the following we look at the blue file, the above also introduced, the blue file represents the other side of the folder does not have this file, we can see if the need to copy this file to another folder, copy the method is very simple, right-click the file, Then click Copy to the other side.

Copying files to the other side example

Step six then we'll look at the file comparison. Compared to the folder, file comparison shows that the color is only red and black, red is different, black means the same. The comparison of files is a row by line comparison, only the text position and content are the same when the black is displayed, otherwise it will show red. By contrast we can easily know the difference between the two files.

Sample text Comparison interface

After reading the above, I believe you have mastered the basic usage of beyond compare. If you still want to learn more, you can focus on the relevant usage tutorials.

Basic usage of Beyond compare