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MATHEMATICA TUTORIAL
Global Options for the Front End
In the standard notebook front end, Mathematica allows you to set a large number of global options. The values of all these options are by default saved in a "preferences file", and are automatically reused when you run Mathematica again. These options include all the settings which can be made using the Preferences dialog.
| style definitions | default style definitions to use for new notebooks |
| file locations | directories for finding notebooks and system files |
| data export options | how to export data in various formats |
| character encoding options | how to encode special characters |
| language options | what language to use for text |
| message options | how to handle messages generated by Mathematica |
| dialog settings | choices made in dialog boxes |
| system configuration | private options for specific computer systems |
Some typical categories of global options for the front end.
You can access global front end options from the kernel by using Options[$FrontEnd, name]. But more often, you will want to access these options interactively using the Option Inspector in the front end.
