Preferences Dialog - Appearance tab

FIG. 427 Preferences Dialog - Appearance tab

• Initial Zoom:

  | Click the down arrow to open a drop-down list of the zoom settings that can be applied as the default initial zoom setting for all new Design View windows. | |

• Monitor Size:

  | Use this field to specify the size of the visible portion of the monitor that your pages will actually be displayed on (see Initial Zoom and Note above). | |

• Gutter Color:

  | The Gutter is the area around the outer edge of the Design View windows. Click the down arrow to open a palette used to set the default color for the gutter on all new Design View windows. | |

• Auto Stack New windows:

  | This setting causes all page windows to stack directly on top of the last active (selected) page window. Use this option if you are working on a resolution or zoom setting that takes up most or all of your screen area, and you want to work with multiple pages without cascading them (which could result in part of the page window being outside of the viewable area). Default = enabled. | | Grid | |

• Grid Style:

  | Select from the drop-down list of styles that the grid can be displayed in (Line, Dashed Line or Dots). | |

• Grid Size:

  | Use the up/down arrows to set the default grid size (measured in pixels). The range is 4 - 255, the default setting is 8. | |

• Snap Tolerance:

  | Use the up/down arrows to specify the snap tolerance for the grid. The snap tolerance represents the number of pixels within which objects in the Design View window will "snap" to the nearest grid line (applicable only when the Snap To Grid option is enabled, via the Button Selection/Drawing Tools toolbar). | |

• Grid Color:

  | Click the down arrow to open a palette used to set the default color for the grid (if enabled) on all new Design View windows. |

• Style:

  | Click the down arrow to open a drop-down list of available checkerboard styles that can be used to represent transparency. The options are Light, Medium, Dark and Custom. If Custom is selected, the Custom Colors option is enabled (see below). | |

• Size:

  | Click the down arrow to open a drop-down list of available checkerboard sizes. The options are Tiny, Small, Medium and Large. | |

• Custom Colors:

  | If Custom was selected as the Style (see above), then you can specify a custom color combination for the checkerboard by selecting from these two drop-down lists. | | Reset | Click to reset all options in this tab to their default settings. | | Reset All | Click to reset all options in all tabs to their default settings. |