Saving, retrieving and resetting options

Options
User interface of the options dialog box

Saving and retrieving options saved as favorites has the following advantages:

• You are temporarily working at a different workstation and you can take your own options with you.
• Several users work on the same project. All users have access to the same option settings.
• New Allplan workstations are configured. Here, too, the same option settings can be used.

Options are saved in or retrieved from favorites in a page-specific manner. Several pages can be saved in a single favorite.

You can also retrieve and reset options page by page or several pages can be retrieved or reset at the same time.

Note: You cannot save all of the option settings as favorites and exchange them with partners. Please note the restrictions applying to saving and loading options.

How to select the options to be saved or reset

The option page from which you activate the area for saving, retrieving and resetting options is selected. As an aid to orientation this page is highlighted in yellow in the left-hand part of the dialog box. The tool you select now - Save or Reset - is applied to the options on the active page.

You can save or reset the options of several pages in the following ways:

Select all pages

CTRL+A: selects all option pages.

Add individual pages to the selection

CTRL+click: press the CTRL key and click the pages you need with the left mouse button. The pages are added to the selection.

Select a range

Click, SHIFT+click: click the first page you need with the left mouse button in the area on the left. Press and hold down the SHIFT key and click the last page you need with the left mouse button in the area on the left. All the pages between the two pages clicked are selected.

Note: When you have selected several pages and then click a page with the left mouse button, the selection is cleared except for the page you clicked last.

When you retrieve options saved in a favorite, you can select the pages after you have opened the file. All the pages saved in the favorite are displayed, and you can select the pages you want to retrieve.