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Table Comparison Options

This page allows you to specify options for table comparison.

Dialog Box Options

• List of types
  Contains the list of all registered table types.
  
  
• New
  Launches the dialog to define a new table type.
  
  
• Edit
  Launches the dialog to edit an existing table type.
  
  
• Remove
  Deletes the selected table type.
  
  
• Move up
  Moves the selected table type up in the list. If a compared file matches more than one table type, the one on top will be used.
  
  
• Move down
  Moves the selected table type down in the list.

• Sort columns
  Enables/disables sorting of tabular data.
  
  
• Columns to sort
  Specify a comma-separated list of column numbers by which tables will be sorted, in order of desired sorting. Append 'd' to sort in descending order. Example: 1,3d (sort by column 1 ascending, then by 3 descending).
  
  
• Skip top lines
  Use this option to skip top lines during the sorting.

• Ignore columns
  Enables/disables ignoring of tabular data columns.
  
  
• Columns to ignore
  Specify a comma-separated list of inclusive ranges of column numbers, each of which is either a number or a pair of hyphen-separated numbers. Examples: 4-6 or 1,5-7.

• Use colors to differentiate columns
  Enables/disables coloring of tabular data columns.
  
  
• Color definitions
  Launches the dialog to define colors for the first 10 columns. Colors are repeated after that, so column 11 will use the color of column 1, etc.

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