Operation Manual

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Hide and display the Dreamweaver Welcome screen
The Welcome screen appears when you start Dreamweaver and anytime that you do not have any documents open. You can choose to hide the
Welcome screen, and then later display it again. When the Welcome screen is hidden and no documents are open, the Document window
is blank.
Hide the Welcome screen
Select the Don’t Show Again option on the Welcome screen.
Display the Welcome screen
1. Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh).
2. In the General category, select the Show Welcome Screen option.
About customizing Dreamweaver in multiuser systems
You can customize Dreamweaver to suit your needs even in a multiuser operating system such as Windows XP or Mac OS X.
Dreamweaver prevents any user’s customized configuration from affecting any other user’s customized configuration. To accomplish this goal, the
first time you run Dreamweaver in one of the multiuser operating systems that it recognizes, the application creates copies of a variety of
configuration files. These user configuration files are stored in a folder that belongs to you.
For example, in Windows XP, they’re stored in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver\en_US\Configuration,
which is hidden by default. To show hidden files and folders, select Tools > Folder Options in Windows Explorer, click the View tab, and select the
Show Hidden Files and Folders option.
In Windows Vista, they’re stored in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver \en_US\Configuration, which is hidden by default.
To show hidden files and folders, select Tools > Folder Options in Windows Explorer, click the View tab, and select the Show Hidden Files and
Folders option.
In Mac OS X, they’re stored inside your Home folder; specifically, in Users/username/Library/Application
Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver/Configuration.
If you reinstall or upgrade Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver automatically makes backup copies of existing user configuration files, so if you
customized those files by hand, you still have access to the changes you made.
Set General preferences for Dreamweaver
1. Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh).
2. Set any of the following options:
Open Documents In Tabs Opens all documents in a single window with tabs that let you switch between documents
(Macintosh only).
Show Welcome Screen Displays the Dreamweaver Welcome screen when you start Dreamweaver or when you don’t have
any documents open.
Reopen Documents on Startup Opens any documents that were open when you closed Dreamweaver. If this option is not
selected, Dreamweaver displays the Welcome screen or a blank screen when you start (depending on your Show Welcome
Screen setting).
Warn When Opening Read-Only Files Alerts you when you open a read-only (locked) file. Choose to unlock/check out the
file, view the file, or cancel.
Enable Related Files Lets you see which files are connected to the current document (for example, CSS or JavaScript files).
Dreamweaver displays a button for each related file at the top of the document, and opens the file if you click the button.
Discover Dynamically-Related Files Lets you select whether Dynamically-Related Files appear in the Related Files toolbar
automatically, or after manual interaction. You can also choose to disable the discovery of Dynamically-Related Files.
Update Links When Moving Files Determines what happens when you move, rename, or delete a document within your site.
Set this preference to always update links automatically, never update links, or prompt you to perform an update. (See Update
links automatically.)
Show Dialog When Inserting Objects Determines whether Dreamweaver prompts you to enter additional information when
inserting images, tables, Shockwave movies, and certain other objects by using the Insert panel or the Insert menu. If this
option is off, the dialog box does not appear and you must use the Property inspector to specify the source file for images, the
number of rows in a table, and so on. For roll over images and Fireworks HTML, a dialog box always appears when you insert
the object, regardless of this option setting. (To temporarily override this setting, Control-click (Windows) or Command-click
(Macintosh) when creating and inserting objects.)
Enable Double-Byte Inline Input Lets you enter double-byte text directly into the Document window if you are using a
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