CuteFTP Professional User s Guide 

Select this to display small icons in the menus next to commonly used menu 

items. 

Highlight active pane 

Select this to display a thin blue line at the top of the window pane that 

currently has the focus. 

Show grid lines on all view panes 

Select this check box to display borders between rows and columns in the 

queue window, and in the Local and Remote panes when in Detail view. 

Clear this check box to hide all borders between rows and columns. 

Display File Sizes in 

Adaptive causes CuteFTP to decide when to show files in Bytes, KB, MB, or 

GB. 

Kilobytes causes CuteFTP to always display values in KB. 

Local, Remote, Queue Pane Font 

Allows you to adjust the font type and size display of all text in the Local Drives 

tab, Queue pane, and Remote pane. 

Smart Sorting 

Use standard lexicographic sorting for alphanumeric file names 

Select this option to sort file lists by the value of each individual digit. 

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Use Smart Sorting for alphanumeric file names 

Select this option to sort file lists by whole number value. 

Tip: 

Smart Sorting always lists file names with smaller numbers first.  For 

example, A2 comes before A12.  David Wincelberg developed Smart 

Sorting. CuteFTP uses it by default. 

Standard Lexicographic sorting lists file names using one character at a 

time reading from left to right.  For example, A12 comes before A2. MS 

Windows uses Standard Lexicographic sorting by default. 

Smart Sorting 

Standard sorting 

FileA1.ext FileA1.ext 

FileA2.ext FileA12.ext 

FileA6.ext FileA2.ext 

FileA9.ext FileA20.ext 

FileA12.ext FileA21.ext 

FileA20.ext FileA6.ext 

FileA21.ext FileA9.ext 

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