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Use the Preferences tab to select the desired analysis method.

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·Text resolution - Determines how the control handles the characters as logical units for comparison:  
·By Letter – Changes are displayed on a letter basis. For example, when father is replaced by football the analysis will display: 123459999  
·By Word – Changes are displayed on word basis. For example, when father is replaced by football the analysis will display: 1234519999  
·By Line - Whole lines are compared. A single mismatched character within a line renders the entire line as different. Lines-breaks are detected by the CR character.  
·Whitespace - Determines how whitespace characters are treated and compared:  
·Ignore All -All whitespace characters are ignored (not taken into consideration).  
Example: the phrases "John Dough", "John Dough" and "JohnDough" are considered identical.  
·Smart detect - One ore more consecutive whitespace characters are treated as a single seperation sequence. i.e, ignore multiple blanks.  
Example: the phrases "John Dough" and "John Dough" are considered identical, but different from "JohnDough".  
·Don't Ignore - Blank (whitespace) characters are treated as any other character.  
Example, the phrases "John Dough", "John Dough" and "JohnDough" are considered as entirely differnet from each other.  
·Ignore Case - Determines whether case sensitive or insensitive comparison is made.  
Example, the phrases "JOHN DOUGH" and "john dough" are considered identical in case-insensitive comparison and differnet otherwise.