### 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 - This determines what type of chart to use for variables.

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

Default Setting and Control Settings - Text and Custom Report Tab

The Text and Custom Report tab on these dialog box determines the default report type DataPage+ will use.

Default Setting (Text Tab) and Control Settings (Custom Report Tab) dialog box

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

Advanced Text Report Options - This button appears if one of these reports is selected from the Report type list: Statistics Report, Data Report, Blanket Report, GR&R Report and Exception Variable Report. It opens the respective options dialog box for the chosen report type. See "Statistics Report", "Data Report", "Blanket Report", "GR&R Report" and "Exception Variable Report" for details on these options.

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

Out of tolerance marker - This determines how to display the out-of-tolerance values in the text report.

Red color - Mark this check box to display all the out-of-tolerance values in red.

Followed by an asterisk - Mark this check box to display all the out-of-tolerance values with an asterisk character(*) at the end.

Note: If you do not have a color printer, use Followed by an asterisk.

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

Default Setting - Chart Tab

The Chart tab on this dialog box determines the default charts DataPage+ will use.

Default Setting dialog box

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

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

Command Buttons