You can change many of the settings that
affect Ellié Computing Merge in the Options dialog
box. To access this dialog box select
View and Comparison Options... from the
Document menu, press F11 or click on the
in
the toolbar.
Layout of the View and Comparison Options dialog box
The Options dialog box is divided into three parts: a top bar for Options Set management, then a navigation pane with a tree on the left and a page display area on the right. The navigation pane contains categories, such as Display, Text Comparisons, and Application. Click on an item in the hierarchy to display the corresponding page of options.
Clicking on Apply or OK in the Options dialog box saves all Options settings, including settings made on other pages. Clicking Cancel on any Options dialog box page cancels all change requests, including those made on other pages. Both Cancel and OK buttons close the dialog box.
Clicking
on
Cancel cancels all changes in all
categories of the dialog box. No changes are saved in any
category.
The Import and Export buttons let you copy settings displayed in the current page (or all the pages of the current options set) from/to the specified configuration. You can import settings from the Factory Settings, or one of the options set. You can export settings to any existing options set or a new options set. Imported options are not saved immediately, you can click on the Cancel button to undo the settings copy action. However, exported options are exported immediately, a confirmation box ensures that you do not click inadvertedly.
Options Sets management
Options Sets save all the view and comparison options, for all types of comparisons. They also save each a copy of file types and converters, this copy is synchronized by default with the shared file types and folders.
The top bar let you:
Obtaining help in the View and Comparison Options dialog box
To see documentation for any page in the Options dialog box, go to the page and press F1 or click on the Help button.
For information on | See |
General display options, colours and markers | Display Options |
Text edition options and character encoding | Edition Options |
Customizable converters to preprocess files | Converters |
Selected File types to tell how to interpret files | File types |
Text file comparisons available options | Text Comparisons Options |
Binary comparison and display options | Binary Comparisons Options |
Image file comparisons and display options | Image Comparisons Options |
Folder display, comparisons options, and filters | Folder Comparisons Options |
Text, Image and Folder comparisons reports options | Reports Options |