# Display Preferences Page

Using this page of the Preferences dialogue box you can configure various aspects of the program's display. The page is accessed by selecting the Tools | Preferences menu item then clicking on Display in the list on the left of the window.

The options are:

- Choose how the overview pane appears when the program starts. Do this using the Start overview pane treeview as drop down list to choose either Fully expanded to make the treeview display all entries or Fully collapsed to display only section headers.
- Choose whether new snippets and categories are displayed in the current tab or in a new tab in the detail pane. Check the Display newly added snippets & categories in new tabs check box to add a new tab for each item, or clear the check box to overwrite the content of the currently selected tab. Note that Ctrl clicking an item always displays the item in a new tab, regardless of this setting.
- Choose whether empty section headings are hidden in the overview pane. Check the Hide empty section headings in overview check box to hide empty section headings or clear the check box to display them.

- Specify the colours used for the following interface elements:

  - Snippet and category headings in the main database.
  - Snippet and category headings in the user database.
  - The background of source code displayed in the detail pane.

  Choose the required colours from the appropriate drop-down colour lists. Custom colours can be created: just select the Custom... option from the top of the drop down list and choose or create the colour in the displayed colour dialogue box.

  Default colours for all the above interface elements can be restored by clicking the Use Default Colours button.

- Choose the size of font used in the overview pane's tree view using the Overview tree font size combo box.

- Similarly, the size of font used in the details pane is set using the Detail pane font size combo box.

  Note: this combo box does not affect the size of the font used to display source code – this can be changed on the Syntax Highlighter Preferences page.