# How Do I Use Beyond Compare: Introduction to Beyon ## How Do I Use Beyond Compare: Introduction to Beyon - [Forty things about Beyond Compare](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/master.md) - [Acknowledgements](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/you-should-check-out-the-official-home-of-beyond-compare.md) - [Quickstart: open two directories](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/introduction/how-to-open-two-directories.md) - [Quickstart: open two files](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/introduction/quickstart-open-two-files.md) - [Quickstart: move a file](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/introduction/quickstart-copy-a-file-from-here-to-there.md): If you find the interface of Beyond Compare (BC) intuitive, skip this page. - [Text Compare: understand the display](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/introduction/text-compare-settings.md) - [Downloads](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/introduction/some-interesting-files-to-test-with.md): 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. - [How to use Beyond Compare for Text Compare](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/text-compare/overview-of-text-compare.md) - [In Beyond Compare, what are unimportant differences?](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/text-compare/untitled-1.md) - [Why no word-wrap ??](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/text-compare/why-no-word-wrap.md) - [How to use Beyond Compare to confirm 100% replacement](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/text-compare/replacement.md) - [Ignore Trivial Differences, Like Timestamps](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/text-compare/how-to-use-regular-expressions-in-beyond-compare-to-ignore-trivial-differences-like-timestamps.md) - [How to use Beyond Compare with Git](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/quickstart-looking-at-a-git-repository-with-beyond-compare.md): How to start at the command line and end up in Beyond Compare's GUI - [Do a roll-back to peek at your old code](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/do-a-roll-back-to-peek-at-your-old-code.md) - [Quickstart: Folder Merge](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/how-to-do-a-folder-merge.md) - [Why merge three folders?](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/merging-two-or-three-directories.md): If you have data in two places and want to bring it together, BC can let you visually merge everything. A special case is different versions in a version control system, like Git. - [Beyond Compare Three-Way Folder Merge Symbols Explained](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/beyond-compare-three-way-folder-merge-symbols-explained.md) - [How to compare two commits, both old, in Git](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/how-to-look-at-two-old-versions-of-a-file-in-git.md) - [Git mergetool: merging three files.](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/untitled.md): Sometimes you don't wand to merge folders, you just want to merge files. In fact, handling a Git merge is the main thing you would use BC for in Git. - [How to recover an older version of your code with Git and Beyond Compare](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/help-i-broke-my-code.md) - [Peeking under the hood at how Git does its thing](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/how-the-heck-does-git-really-work.md): Beyond Compare can reveal the blobs and hooks in your .git folder. - [Getting better at Git](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/the-one-thing-that-will-improve-your-git-ability.md) - [Find changes since last commit](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/find-changes-since-last-commit.md) - [Patches](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/patches.md) - [How to configure Visual Studio to use Beyond Compare for Version Control](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/git/how-to-configure-visual-studio-to-use-beyond-compare-for-version-control.md) - [How to use Beyond Compare in the Terminal](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/scripts-and-the-command-line/scripts-and-the-command-line-interface.md): also How to use Beyond Compare at the Command Line (CLI) or How to use Beyond Compare with scripts - [How to do an automatic backup every day](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/scripts-and-the-command-line/how-to-do-an-automatic-backup-every-day.md): You may prefer the very succinct Knowledge Base article about this. - [Write a Batch File That Will Start Several Syncs Simultaneously](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/scripts-and-the-command-line/write-a-batch-file-that-will-start-several-syncs-simultaneously.md) - [Write a batch file that will start several text compares automatically](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/scripts-and-the-command-line/write-a-batch-file-that-will-start-several-text-compares-automatically.md) - [TL; DR](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/scripts-and-the-command-line/tl-dr.md) - [Quickstart: open a couple of Excel spreadsheets](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/table-compare/quickstart-open-a-couple-of-excel-spreadsheets.md) - [Example: finding missing items in a pair of spreadsheets](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/table-compare/example-finding-missing-items-in-a-pair-of-spreadsheets.md) - [Keys](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/table-compare/keys.md): Key columns should have values that are (somewhat) unique to a given row, such as an ID number. Beyond Compare will give them precedence when trying to align your two tables. - [Mismatched Columns](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/table-compare/the-columns-on-my-two-tables-dont-match.md) - [Longer example, opening .csv files](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/table-compare/columns-file-formats-keys.md) - [How to remove columns from a spreadsheet](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/table-compare/how-to-remove-columns-from-a-spreadsheet.md) - [Aligned vs Unaligned](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/table-compare/aligned-vs-unaligned.md) - [Example: List of City Trees](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/table-compare/how-to-look-at-only-one-column.md): In this example we will open a very large table of public trees in Wisconsin and sort it. - [Backup your entire computer (Part One)](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/sync-folders/backup-your-entire-computer-part-one.md) - [Backup your entire computer (Part Two)](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/sync-folders/backup-your-entire-computer-part-two.md) - [Backup, advanced](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/sync-folders/backup-advanced.md) - [RegEx Examples: Filename Alignment Overide](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/sync-folders/examples-of-regex-filename-alignment-overide.md) - [Scan a lot or a little](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/sync-folders/scan-a-lot-or-a-little.md) - [Peek](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/peek.md) - [Binary](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/binary.md): Use Beyond Compare to see (and edit!) the actual bits and bytes of your files. - [Undo](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/undo.md): You must turn on this feature. It is not on by default. - [Colors](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/colors.md) - [How to compare images](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/how-to-compare-versions-of-images.md) - [Report: Text Compare](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/print-a-report.md): When you are trying to archive your file comparison, you can export the results as HTML (with colors and other CSS), as a printout, or as text. Here are what the text formats look like. - [Report: Table Compare](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/report-table-compare.md): Spreadsheets have three main ways to print reports: Text, Printer, and HTML - [Looooonnnnngggg lines...](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/lines-too-long-wordwrap.md) - [Binary: How to see the 1's and 0's](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/how-to-see-the-1s-and-0s-in-a-text-file.md): This might be good for teachers or Comp Sci 101. - [How to write your first script](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/how-to-write-your-first-script.md): If you are moderately savvy on the command line, you can invoke BC by saying BComp.exe (or on Linux & Mac just BComp), followed by a filename where you have stored a script - [How to find redundant or duplicate files](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/how-to-find-redundant-or-duplicate-files.md) - [Minor Edge Cases](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/minor-edge-cases.md): These are things I need once a year. By bothering to list them here I am guaranteeing that I will never encounter them again, probably. That's fine too. - [Shortcut Key](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/shortcut-key.md): These are tested on Windows 10 - [How to ignore parts of your file](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/how-to-ignore-parts-of-your-file.md) - [Folder System Context Menus](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/folder-system-context-menus.md) - [About Evan Genest](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/about-evan-genest.md)