Preferences and Formatting Options

There are some identical formatting options and preferences. Preferences are global settings applied to documents. Preferences, however, can be overridden by database connection formatting and document-based formatting.

Order of Formatting Precedence

  1. Formatting options saved with documents

  2. Formatting options saved with the database connection

  3. Formatting options specified in the User Preferences dialog box

See Formatting Order of Precedence.

Spreadsheet preferences and chart preferences are identical to spreadsheet options and chart properties. They are only applied to subsequently created documents, however. See Spreadsheet Options and Charts and Chart Types.