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Changing CIAO! Preferences and Views

From the main CIAO! window, you can set preferences for how you want CIAO! to appear. You can also make changes to how the views appear.

Changing CIAO! Preferences

You can change the following preferences:

  • Enable or disable Tooltips
  • Enable or disable case insensitive sorting (when enabled, sort ignores case)
  • Hide or show template linked elements
  • Define the fonts for normal and modified elements
  • Define the font for template-linked elements
  • Restore the default font

Preferences Menu

To enable/disable Tooltips

You can enable or disable tooltips as follows:

  • From the CIAO! menu select Enable Tooltips to add or remove the checkmark from the menu item.

To enable/disable case insensitive sorting

You can enable or disable case insensitive sorting as follows:

  • From the CIAO! menu select Case Insensitive Sorting to add or remove the checkmark from the menu item.

To hide template-linked elements

If you make changes to template-linked elements, the changes could later be overwritten in the case of a design refresh or replace. You can change CIAO! preferences so that template-linked elements are not displayed in the CIAO! window.

  • Click File > Preferences > Hide Template Linked Elements

To define fonts

You can define font types, for example, the Normal Font, used in the CIAO! window as follows:

  1. Click File > Preferences > Normal Font
    You see the Font window.
  2. Select the font, font style, size, effects and color as needed.
  3. Click OK.

To restore the default font

You can restore the default font as follows:

  • Click File > Preferences > Restore Default Fonts

Making changes in the view

Here are some changes you can make to the view:

  • Add or remove columns from the view
  • Change to a categorized view

To add/remove columns from the view

You can choose which columns to display in the CIAO! window as follows:

  1. Click View > Columns to add optional columns to the view, customizing the type of information that appears.
  2. Check or uncheck an item to add or remove the column from the view. Columns Menu

To change to a categorized view

The CIAO! main window default view lets you sort by clicking a column heading. CIAO! also has a categorized view of design elements that you can switch to as follows:

  • Click View > Categorized View to toggle between the two views.
    Categorized View Menu

The check mark beside Categorized View indicates that the Categorized View is active.