To reach this options page, select View > Options... > Folder Comparisons > Fonts and Colours
The controls on this page are used to configure the appearance of text in folder comparison windows.
Customize folder comparison fonts and colours
By default, Merge uses a combination of the current Windows colour scheme and colours from the file comparison Fonts and Colours options page in the folder comparison window. If you want to customize any of the fonts and colours used in the folder comparison results list (and its print-outs), check this option.
Text preview
The text previews show how unchanged, inserted, removed, and changed files will look in folder comparison windows.
Background
Click on one of the drop-down colour selection buttons in this group to change the background colour for a file type. Click the More button within the drop-down to access a larger range of colours.
Font
The buttons in this group enable you to change the font and foreground colour for each type of file state that can be displayed in file comparison windows.
Apply changes to these options to
By default, changes that you make to the font and colour settings are applied to both (or all three in the Professional Edition) columns of results in the folder comparison window. If you want to use different font and colour settings in each of the columns, choose the column to which you want the changes to apply from this drop-down list. Next, choose the new colours and fonts and then click Apply or OK.
Default background colour
Click to change the background colour used for empty areas of the folder comparison results list.
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