Setting preferences – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 User Manual

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Setting preferences

You can customize AppleWorks by setting options in the Preferences dialog
box. Some options you set apply to the current document only, and others
apply to new documents you create. To have settings take effect whenever
you create a new document, click Make Default in the Preferences dialog box.

Tip

You can also set specific preferences in a document and save the

document as stationery that you can reuse. For more information on
stationery, see “Saving document formatting as templates (stationery)” on
page 2-10.

Choose Preferences from the Edit menu. In the Preferences dialog box, choose
a category (General, Text, Graphics, Spreadsheet, Palettes, or Communications) from
the Topic pop-up menu. Select options, and then click OK.

Set the number of rows (when you
view by name) and columns (when
you view by object) on a library
palette

View Options, and then type numbers for Rows and Columns

*

Choose Index from the Help menu and type the first few letters of the entry. Double-click the
entry and then double-click a topic.

To

From the library palette’s View menu, choose

In the Help index,

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see:

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preferences

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