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Figure 1.7
General preferences window on a Macintosh and Windows PC.
Also under Preferences is the Manage Preferences submenu on a
Macintosh, which has Manage Preferences…, Save Preferences…,
Factory Settings, and Factory Window Settings. (These items may
appear slightly differently or not at all under Unix or Windows com-
puters.) You can set up Stata's windows, fonts, colors, etc., and save this
as a custom preference file. These files are saved with an .rc extension
in the Stata preference folder and can be opened at any time. If you
wish, you can reset the Stata program to both the factory settings and
the factory window settings on a Macintosh. On a Windows PC, there
are several predefined window settings under the Load Preferences Set
submenu. This includes the Widescreen Layout (default), Combined
Layout, Compact Layout, and three Presentation layouts. Finally, on
Windows PCs, there is a Reset File Associations submenu.
Opening new windows in the Do-File Editor or Viewer can be set
from the Preferences to open them as new tabs or new windows on a
Macintosh. Opening new windows as tabs can help keep your screen
from getting cluttered with too many open windows. This is the default
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