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Preferences</h1>
<p CLASS="Para">The Preferences dialog is the dialog used to set user
preferences. It can be found from the main workbench <b>Window</b> menu under
<b>Window &gt; Preferences</b>. Preference pages contributed by plug-ins will be found
in this dialog.<p CLASS="Para">Most of the functionality of the preferences are
defined by their individual pages but the dialog provides two general functions:<p CLASS="Para"><b>Export</b>:
Export will write any changes to the default preferences to a user-specified
file.<p CLASS="Para"><b>Import</b>: Import will apply the preferences in a
user-specified file.&nbsp;
<p>Here is what the preferences dialog looks like:
<p><img src="../images/Image217_pref_wb.gif" alt="Preference dialog" border="0" width="525" height="467"></p>
<P><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelr.gif" alt="Related reference" width="159" height="27">
<br><a href="ref-23.htm">Workbench window layout</a>
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