### Defining Default Settings

The Chart, Text, CAD, Custom Report, and Report tabbed windows all contain this Options icon . Clicking it and then selecting Default Setting... displays the Default Setting dialog box.

- If you arrived at this dialog box from the Chart, Text, CAD, or Report tabs, the dialog box determines the default settings for the Chart, Text, and CAD tabbed windows in the main display.

- If you arrived at this dialog box from the Custom Report tab, the dialog box determines the default settings for the Chart, Text, and CAD objects in the Custom Report.

Decimal places for nearly all charts or label types are controlled by the global decimal option under Tools | Options menu, General tab. The exception is the "Multi Deviation Column Label" used in the CAD tab.

Default Setting - CAD Tab

The CAD tab on this dialog box defines the default charts Datapage+ will use.

Default Setting dialog box

Default type for variable - Determines what type of chart to use for variables.

Default type for feature - Determines what type of chart to use for features.

Default Setting - Text Tab

The Text tab on this dialog box determines the default report type Datapage+ will use.

Default Setting dialog box

Show Grid Line - This displays column and row grid lines around text fields displayed in the text report, as shown in the following example:

Example Text Report Showing the Dotted Grid Lines

Font Size - This changes the font size of the data portion of text reports. Headers and footers are not affected by this setting.

Default Text Report Type - Determines what type of text report to use. These are described in the "Text Reports" topic.

Default Setting - Chart Tab

The Chart tab on this dialog box lets you determine the default charts Datapage+ will use.

Default Setting dialog box

Default type for variable - Determines what type of chart to use for variables.

Default type for feature - Determines what type of chart to use for features.

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