General Preferences

The preference dialog can be started by selecting the Edit and then the Preferences... menu item.

The dialog is used by selecting one of the categories in the top left column of options and then changing the settings for that option. The categories are presented as a list; each can be selected in turn by placing the mouse pointer over the desired element and clicking with the primary mouse button.

Certain elements, such as the Font preference, have a small triangle in front of their name. Clicking on this triangle will open a sub-element line which allows the sub-element to be selected and have its options altered.

The font preferences allow the user to change the font which is used by default in the Gnumeric grid cells and to set the font used for headers and footers when printing.

The Font selection sets the default font name, size and style to be used in the cells on every sheet.

Figure 13-1 Display Font

The Headers/Footers selection sets the font name, size and style which will be used, by default, in the headers and footers added to each page of printed output. These selections can be over-ridden in the print preferences dialog as explained in Chapter 15 ― Printing. The content of the headers and footers is determined via the Page Setup dialog, detailed in Section 15.2 ― Page Setup..

Figure 13-2 Header & Footer Font

The Copy and Paste element allows the user to determine how copied items are integrated into the clipboard mechanism.

Figure 13-3 Copy and Paste

The Files element provides settings related to the handling of files.

Figure 13-4 Files

The Tools element allows to determine the settings for the recently used function list, for autocompletion of data entry in cells and for range selections.

Figure 13-5 Tools

The Sorting element allows to determine the default settings for the Sort Dialog.

Figure 13-6 Sorting

The Undo element permits to customize the undo feature. You would normally like the number of undo items to be in the 10 to 25 range and the maximal undo size to be 10000 to 100000, unless you only have little memory available.

Figure 13-7 Undo

The windows preferences include options to set the default appearance of the whole window displaying the Gnumeric interface as well as

The Windows element includes a variety of options that did not fit within any of the other tabs.

Figure 13-8 Windows

The Screen elements allows the user to set the pixel pitch (number of pixels per length) for the screen. This is a fundamental property of the display which should be set correctly by default.

Figure 13-9 Screen