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hmTitle:"Editing Column Handling",
hmDescription:"The Column Handling dialog allows you to set options for each comparison column.  A subset of this dialog is used to set default handling for all columns.",
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hmHeader:"<h1 class=\"p_Heading1\"><span class=\"f_Heading1\">Editing Column Handling<\/span><\/h1>\n\r",
hmBody:"<p class=\"p_Normal\">The <span class=\"f_Command\">Column Handling<\/span> dialog allows you to set options for each comparison column.  A subset of this dialog is used to set default handling for all columns.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Mark the <span class=\"f_Command\">Key<\/span> checkbox to make data in this column control sorting and alignment.  If you have more than one key column, the priority for sorting is granted to the top-most columns in the list.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Mark the <span class=\"f_Command\">Use Default<\/span> checkbox to use the default column handling as defined for this session.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Pick the appropriate <span class=\"f_Command\">Type<\/span> for the column:<\/p>\n\r<div style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 0; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 0.1875rem 0 0.8750rem 1.6250rem;\"><table style=\"border:none; border-spacing:0;\">\n\r<tr>\n\r<td style=\"vertical-align:top; width:4.8750rem; padding:0; border:none\"><p class=\"p_Command\"><span class=\"f_Command\">General<\/span><\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td style=\"vertical-align:top; padding:0; border:none\"><p class=\"p_Normal\">Automatically determine the column type based on the data in the files.<\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<\/tr>\n\r<tr>\n\r<td style=\"vertical-align:top; width:4.8750rem; padding:0; border:none\"><p class=\"p_Command\"><span class=\"f_Command\">Text<\/span><\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td style=\"vertical-align:top; padding:0; border:none\"><p class=\"p_Normal\">Column contains textual data.<\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<\/tr>\n\r<\/table>\n\r<\/div>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Mark the <span class=\"f_Command\">Unimportant<\/span> checkbox to indicate that this column is not important to the comparison.  (Unimportant differences are colored blue instead of red, or are ignored altogether using the <span class=\"f_Command\">Ignore Unimportant Differences<\/span> <img style=\"margin:0;width:1.0000rem;height:1.0000rem;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/insigignored.png\"\/> feature.)<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">The <span class=\"f_Command\">Text important, except for<\/span> options govern columns that are defined or detected as Text.  Mark the <span class=\"f_Command\">Character case (ABC = abc)<\/span> checkbox if differences in case (i.e., capitalization) are unimportant.  Mark the <span class=\"f_Command\">Whitespace<\/span> checkbox to consider differences in whitespace (the number of blanks before, after or between words) unimportant.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Use <span class=\"f_Command\">Date tolerance<\/span> to allow date-time values in this column to differ by the given amount before being considered an important difference.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Set the <span class=\"f_Command\">Numeric tolerance<\/span> value to allow numbers to differ by the given amount before being considered an important difference.<\/p>\n\r"
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