Merge Deluxe

Depending on the task at hand, you might need to merge the content of two or more files together, but it can take quite the time to open them in the default editor to manually copy and paste content. Luckily, you can rely on applications like Merge Deluxe to bundle content of two files into a single one.

First of all, the application is good to go from the moment download is done, because it doesn’t take any of your time with a setup process. More than that, it also means that it can be used directly from a USB flash drive in case you decide to carry it with you at all times. Registry entries are not modified in the process, so the health status remains intact.

The visual design doesn’t stand in your way when it comes to accommodation. A couple of fields need to be filled in with the two files you want to glue together, as well as an intuitive set of options related to the general behavior of the process. A third field is there so you specify the location and name of the new file.

Dropping files over the window doesn’t get them ready, so you need to use the browse dialogs. By default, the application can target almost any kind of file, but it’s a risky operation to attempt to merge two complex formats. On the other hand, the application is quite efficient when it comes to plain text merging.

Related options make it possible to have the resulting file placed in the first source directory, warn on overwrite of existing items, exit when the task is done, and save setting when quitting. Additional fields show you the file size and modification date of the two source files, as well as the size of the result.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Merge Deluxe wants to provide a great deal of flexibility to help you merge the content of any kind of file. Surely enough it can create a single file out of two, but there’s no guarantee that the resulting format doesn’t become corrupt, since the program isn’t really dedicated to a specific array of file types.