This topic summarizes the items needing your attention. Most of listed items might have inappropriate defaults for your system, so it would be worthwhile to set them up correctly.

General

Enable receiving of automatic alerts in Ted4 or Fred4

For text editing

Configure text depth, characters/words display counters in the status bar

Increment the number of undos in text

Open article txts as in saved workspace

Enable raw unjustified text by default

Hide or show formatting tags (markup) by default

Set the font and the size of the text in the source pane

Select the colors for the source pane

Make white text visible in the WYSIWYG pane

Choose the measurement units for the WYSIWYG pane

Limit the image dimensions in the WYSIWYG pane

Select color profile for colors display

Enable and configure the auto-save of text

Select and configure the spell-checker

Enable and configure the personal auto-corrections

Automatically open article elements on opening article

Automatically open all the articles as the current one

Decide how to handle blanks lines in text

For page editing

Personalize measurement units on the status bar

Enable and configure auto-save of pages

Increment the number of undos on page

Set the tolerance for image replacement

Enable smart image resize (Fit images on resize)

Select the info to display on screen

Select the color profile for monitor

Enable and configure snap-to zone (Grid snapping tolerance)

Set default weight of boxes, rules and images

Configure quick tracking display

Allow Shift/Ctrl for extended actions

Enable and configure image captions

Configure jump lines / enable global ones

Configure object libraries for quick replacement with F6

For editions

Configure the default layers list when creating editions/adding pages

See also

Set up the global (typography-level) behavior