The General Preferences settings determine how Crystal Ball displays alerts and warning messages, help topics, and graphic presentations.
To set general preferences:
Select Help, and then Resources, and then General Preferences in the Crystal Ball ribbon in Microsoft Excel.
The General Preferences dialog contains these settings:
Alerts level — Controls the display of warnings and other alerts, mostly reset prompts, at a global level:
Show all alerts — Displays all alerts.
Show only important alerts — Displays only warning alerts, not reset prompts.
Don't show any alerts — Does not display any alerts except those regarded as essential.
Click Reset to restore the default alert display settings.
Sort order of objects — Sets the default order for objects in the Object Picker, charts, reports, extracted data, and unlinked correlation matrixes, as follows: By Name, By Cell Row, By Cell Column (Selecting Assumptions, Forecasts, and other Data Types).
Use local help (English only) — When selected, specifies that help is retrieved from the computer where Crystal Ball is installed. Local help displays only in English. Otherwise, help is retrieved from a server on the Internet. Online help is translated into the same language as Crystal Ball if available. By default, Use local help is not selected and help is retrieved from the Internet.
Enable accessibility options — Activates a number of features that make Crystal Ball easier to use by people with certain disabilities, including the following:
Chart series are distinguished by patterns in addition to colors.
Microsoft Excel charts are created in reports by default.
Cell comments are displayed by default.
For additional information, click
and see the Oracle Crystal Ball Accessibility Guide.