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Set General Appearance Preferences for Colors and Fonts

The General Appearance preference settings for colors and fonts specify the colors and fonts that are used for basic items such as hyperlinks, text, and error message text, debug fonts, and the colors and fonts to use for various components of views and editors.

Follow these steps:

1. Select Preferences from the Window menu.

   The Preferences dialog appears.

2. Navigate to General, Appearance, Colors and Fonts.

   The Colors and Fonts Preferences page appears.

   

3. Click the plus sign (+) beside the Basic, Debug, and View and Editor Folders to open the folders.

   The default color and font settings for different components in each folder appear.

   The following illustrations show the default settings in the Basic, Debug, and View and Editor folders:

   

   

   

4. Select the item you want to change and click the Color button or click Change.

   The Color or Font selection dialog appears.

   Note: For font selections, you can click Use System Font to let the operating system automatically set the font to a reasonable value. For example, on Windows systems, the operating system sets the font selected in the Display Properties control panel.

5. Select a Color or font from the Color or Font selection dialog and click OK.

   The Color or Font selection dialog closes.

6. Click OK.

   The Diagram Trace Utility saves the changes and closes the Preferences dialog.