> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://beyondcompare.gitbook.io/project/other/print-a-report.md).

# Report: Text Compare

Our example data is a pair of nine line text files.

![](/files/-LbeKO4wpBitPT2ec5s7)

To save your text comparison results, just choose `Session->TextCompareReport` 

Choose HTML for more color, and for copy-paste possibilities.  Choose text for easier parsing.  

In Text format, here are six examples of the report format.  All are based on the diff shown above.

### Side-by-side

![](/files/-LbeKXUtwpNCb0GPAr__)

### Summary

![](/files/-LbeKc8XZ1rby811Zugr)

### Interleaved

![](/files/-LbeKirO73KmlTFigA9_)

### Patch

![](/files/-LbeKoXVyS87ZLCik5Rn)

### Statistics

![](/files/-LbeL-wT8lvXqJQovesj)

### XML dump

![](/files/-LbeL3wP384hYvw94T4C)

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