How Do I Use Beyond Compare: Introduction to Beyon
  • Forty things about Beyond Compare
  • Acknowledgements
  • Learn Beyond Compare in 5 Minutes
    • Quickstart: open two directories
    • Quickstart: open two files
    • Quickstart: move a file
    • Text Compare: understand the display
    • Downloads
  • Text Compare
    • How to use Beyond Compare for Text Compare
    • In Beyond Compare, what are unimportant differences?
    • Why no word-wrap ??
    • How to use Beyond Compare to confirm 100% replacement
    • Ignore Trivial Differences, Like Timestamps
  • Git
    • How to use Beyond Compare with Git
    • Do a roll-back to peek at your old code
    • Quickstart: Folder Merge
    • Why merge three folders?
    • Beyond Compare Three-Way Folder Merge Symbols Explained
    • How to compare two commits, both old, in Git
    • Git mergetool: merging three files.
    • How to recover an older version of your code with Git and Beyond Compare
    • Peeking under the hood at how Git does its thing
    • Getting better at Git
    • Find changes since last commit
    • Patches
    • How to configure Visual Studio to use Beyond Compare for Version Control
  • Scripts and the Command Line
    • How to use Beyond Compare in the Terminal
    • How to do an automatic backup every day
    • Write a Batch File That Will Start Several Syncs Simultaneously
    • Write a batch file that will start several text compares automatically
    • TL; DR
  • Table Compare
    • Quickstart: open a couple of Excel spreadsheets
    • Example: finding missing items in a pair of spreadsheets
    • Keys
    • Mismatched Columns
    • Longer example, opening .csv files
    • How to remove columns from a spreadsheet
    • Aligned vs Unaligned
    • Example: List of City Trees
  • Sync / Folders
    • Backup your entire computer (Part One)
    • Backup your entire computer (Part Two)
    • Backup, advanced
    • RegEx Examples: Filename Alignment Overide
    • Scan a lot or a little
  • Other
    • Peek
    • Binary
    • Undo
    • Colors
    • How to compare images
    • Report: Text Compare
    • Report: Table Compare
    • Looooonnnnngggg lines...
    • Binary: How to see the 1's and 0's
    • How to write your first script
    • How to find redundant or duplicate files
    • Minor Edge Cases
    • Shortcut Key
    • How to ignore parts of your file
    • Folder System Context Menus
    • About Evan Genest
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  • Most important download, the Beyond Compare Free Download, Trial License!
  • Fake files to play with in TEXT COMPARE
  • Fake files to play with in TABLE COMPARE (Excel and CSV files):
  • Fake files to play with in FOLDER COMPARE:
  • Fake files to play with in FOLDER SYNC:

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  1. Learn Beyond Compare in 5 Minutes

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Often, you can learn an app by just playing with it. But Beyond Compare is an empty glass. Fill it with some test data from this page.

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Most important download, the Beyond Compare Free Download, Trial License!

To get started with Beyond Compare, on Mac, Linux, or Windows:

  1. the software

  2. Install it

  3. Enjoy Beyond Compare for thirty (non-consecutive) days.

The Beyond Compare free trial does not need a registration key. It runs fully featured for the first thirty days and then you can pay either US$60 or US$30 for a perpetual license.

Next, if you are just playing around, maybe you are not sure what kinds of files to use when trying out Beyond Compare. Grab some test data!

Fake files to play with in TEXT COMPARE

Fake files to play with in TABLE COMPARE (Excel and CSV files):

Fake files to play with in FOLDER COMPARE:

Fake files to play with in FOLDER SYNC:

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Spacelab-IMHO
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text-MLK&Ike.zip
archive
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text-Shake.zip
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table-tigers.zip
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folder-trees-TRES.zip
archive
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syncopate.zip
archive