About Preferences

Some settings that affect the way you work are saved with your document, and others are saved in the Preferences folder in your home folder.

When settings are saved with a document, they are saved in a Document Style, too. Therefore, if you want to change the default behavior of those settings, you change them in your Document Styles. When settings are saved in your Preferences folder, you change them using the Preferences window.

The following settings are saved in every document:

In addition to the settings shown in the Preferences window, the following settings are saved in your Preferences folder:

To show the Preferences window: