Hex Compare Commands

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Following is a description of the Hex Compare commands, in addition to the common commands. Most of these commands are available as toolbar buttons.

Pick Tools > Options and switch to the Toolbars, etc. page to define your own keyboard shortcuts, and hide or expose commands on the menus and toolbars.

The Session menu

	Save Session	Saves the current session.
	Save Session As	Saves the current session under a new name.
	Session Settings	Opens the Hex Compare Session Settings dialog.
	Locked	Locks or unlocks current session.
	Clear Session	Replaces the current view with an empty Hex Compare.
	Swap Sides	Exchanges the left and right files.
	Reload Files	Reloads the displayed files, prompting to save first if necessary.
	Recompare Files	Recompares the displayed files, preserving edits, but not undoability.
	Hex Compare Report	Produces the Hex Compare report.
	Hex Compare Info	Displays comparison statistics.
	Compare Files Using	Opens the displayed files in a new session using a different class of file view.
	Compare Parent Folders	Opens a new Folder Compare session based on the parent folders of the currently loaded files.

The File menu

	Open File	Opens an existing file into the picked pane.
	Open File on File System *	Opens an existing local file into the picked pane.
	Open File Using Profile *	Opens an existing file into the picked pane using a profile.
	Open Clipboard	Loads the Clipboard contents into the picked pane.
	Open With	Opens the picked pane's file in one of the external Open With applications.
	Open With > Associated Application	Opens the picked pane's file with its associated application.
	Open With > Text Edit	Opens the picked pane's file with the built-in text editor.
	Save File	Saves the modified file from the picked pane.
	Save File As	Saves the file from the picked pane with a new name.
	Save File on File System As *	Saves the file from the picked pane with a new name on the file system.
	Save File Using Profile As *	Saves the file from the picked pane with a new name using a profile.
	Explorer	Displays the file manager's context menu for the file in the picked pane.

The Edit menu

	Undo	Undoes previous action.
	Redo	Redoes previously undone action.
	Copy to Right / Copy to Left *	Copies selected bytes to indicated side.
	Copy to Other Side	Copies selected bytes to opposite side. The caption and icon appear as Copy to Right or Copy to Left depending on the current side.
	Cut / Copy / Paste / Delete	Standard editing commands.
	Select All	Selects all visible bytes in the current pane.

The Search menu

	Next Difference Bytes	Positions at next difference bytes.
	Previous Difference Bytes	Positions at previous difference bytes.
	Next Difference Files	Opens the parent folder session's next pair of files with differences. (Child sessions only.)
	Previous Difference Files	Opens the parent folder session's previous pair of files with differences. (Child sessions only.)
	Copy File to Right and Open Next Difference	Copies the entire left-side file to the right and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
	Copy File to Left and Open Next Difference	Copies the entire right-side file to the left and opens the folder session's next different files. (Child sessions only.)
	Find	Searches for matching text.
	Replace	Replaces matching text.
	Find Next	Finds next occurrence of search string.
	Find Previous	Finds previous occurrence of search string.
	Go To	Positions at specified byte.

The View menu

	Show All	Shows all bytes, with or without differences.
	Show Differences	Shows only bytes with differences.
	Show Same	Shows only bytes without differences.
	Current Byte Address	Shows current byte address.
	Little Endian Values	Lists values treating the first byte as the least significant one.
	Big Endian Values	Lists values treating the first byte as the most significant one.
	Byte Addresses	Shows or hides byte addresses.
	Display Font *	Selects the font to use to display file data.
	Increase Display Font Size *	Increases hex font size.
	Decrease Display Font Size *	Decreases hex font size.
	Reset Display Font Size *	Resets hex font size.
	Layout	Configures layout options.
	Side-by-side Layout	Arranges panes left and right of each other.
	Over-under Layout	Arranges panes above and below each other.
	Thumbnail	Shows or hides the thumbnail summary of changes at left of view.
	File Info	Shows or hides file information panels at the top of panes.
	Toolbar	Shows or hides the toolbar.

* Hidden by default.

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