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Walking Through Differences

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In the Search menu, the Next Difference Section and Previous Difference Section commands help you step through all the differences in your files, and all your files with differences.  In the Text Compare session, choose Next Difference Section to go to the next range of lines with differences or Previous Difference Section to go back to the previous range of lines with differences.

The arrow icons will either be unavailable or change color from bright yellow to dull yellow to indicate that there are no more differences in that direction.  To configure what happens when there are no more differences, see File View Next Difference Options.

In Text Compare sessions, the current file format controls whether Next and Previous are on a line-by-line or section-by-section basis.  To access the current file format from a Text Compare session, choose Session | Session Settings , switch to the Importance tab, and click the Edit Grammar button.  Then, on the Text Format dialog's Misc tab, toggle Lines are independent.

In the Search menu, choose Next Difference or Previous Difference to go to individual differences in long lines with multiple differences.

In the Search menu, choose Next Difference Files or Previous Difference Files to jump directly to the next files with differences in the associated folder view.