Settings Dialog
This dialog is used to setup application settings:
Each tab has self-descripting options. Here are some more details on the use cases when you may need to change these options.
File Open
- Object types group specified which object definitions will be loaded and compared
- Load field properties enables to load table field properties like Format, Required, etc. This will allow to merge tables, fields and their properties, but this can significantly affect database open performance
- Linked tables and pass-through queries is used to setup reading of properties that may cause undesired calls to the linked objects data sources
- Object types and properties confirmation specifies whether you want to use settings listed above by default or confirm these options on each database file open
- Database open/reload group allows you to change the behaviour you've chosen previously using Database reload dialog
- Background processing of database loading allows to use Access application in the background, in turn it makes it possible to open database pairs in parallel
Data Diff
This tab configures default behavior for the Data diff tab:
- Paging specifies default page size
- Data Merge group specifies the default behavior of Data merge warning dialog
- Data Export group specifies the default behavior of Data export warning dialog
- String compare options defines the default state of
ignore case and 
ignore leading and trailing whitespaces toolbar action states
Text Diff
- Text compare options group defines the default state of ignore case, ignore leading and trailing whitespaces and
ignore all whitespaces toolbar action states for the Text diff tab
- Forms & Reports defines the default state of
both layout and module, 
module only, 
layout, ignore form/layout 
binary content and 
version&checksum for forms and reports toolbar action states for the Text diff tab
- Form & Report definition compression and Queries groups with self-descripting comments
Table Structure Diff
This tab has a number of self-descripting options specifying which table attributes are included into table text presentation and taken into account to recognize table definition as changed.
Query Definition Diff
For now this tab has only one option 'Ignore connection string'. This option defines if pass-through query connection should be included in query definition, and therefore if query should be counted as changed when it has different connection.
Misc.
- Application appearance has options affecting application UI. Don't resize toolbar on application zoom allows to keep toolbar unchanged when you zoom application UI using
and 
zoom toolbar actions. Max tab header width specifies the maximum width of tab in pixels for the main application tab control.
- Ambiguous object names due to case differences, Excel reports and Backup on objects merge/delete options have comprehensive descriptions.
Free Version Limitations
- The whole dialog is not available
Last updated: 2024-12-27
