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Preferences Overview
You can customize your Arbortext Editor interface and operation by setting preferences. ChooseTools > Preferences to open the Preferences dialog box.
Select one of the Preferences categories to customize the preferences associated with that category. The current settings are displayed in the preference window for the selected category. Your preferences are saved when you click the OK button to leave the Preferences dialog box.
You can specify your window, view, or document appearance and behavior using the Preferences dialog box. Preferences are stored by default in the arbortext.wcf preferences file.
If you share document directories with other people and want to maintain your own set of default preferences, you can keep your own preferences file by setting up Arbortext Editor to use that directory as your working directory.
If you share a computer with others, each of you can have your own default directory by adding Arbortext Editor icons to the desktop, and having each point to a different working directory.
Following is the list of the options you can set using the categories in the Preferences dialog box:
• Color — Color display preferences for tag fonts, generated text, text entities, and file entities.
• Columns — Column view preferences.
• Compare — Document comparison preferences.
• DITA — DITA document preferences.
• Edit — Editing window preferences.
• File Locations — File locations for document type, graphics, and entities paths. You can also set the path to your web browser.
• Save — Document saving preferences.
• Spelling — Spelling checking rules.
• User Information — User information for identifying change tracking authors.
• View — Screen display preferences.
• Warnings — Warnings preferences for printing, stylesheets, context checking, change tracking, and whether to prompt before wrapping when searching the document.
• Window — Window features such as displaying full menus, the command line, or table rulers. You can also choose the cursor type, the measurement units for rulers, and whether to save your window configurations when you exit Arbortext Editor.
• Advanced — Advanced preferences offer a list of the set command options which affect all Arbortext Editor preferences. These options are available from the Advanced button at the bottom of the Preferences dialog box.