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Dreamweaver Preferences

To edit Dreamweaver preferences, select Edit from the toolbar and then Preferences from the dropdown menu.

The preferences are grouped into categories. To edit the preferences for a particular category, click on the category in the left hand box in the preferences window and the related preferences will then be displayed and you can change them.

Many of the Dreamweaver preferences can be left at their default settings. Therefore the list below details only those categories and preferences that we recommend are changed from the defaults.

General

Show start page	Untick
Use <strong> and <em> in place of <b> and <i>	Untick

Code Format

Indent	Untick
Line break type	LF (Unix)

Code Rewriting

Fix invalidly nested and unclosed tags	Untick
Revome extra closing tags	Untick

File Types / Editors

Extensions

Add the following line to the list by clicking the + sign:
.nav .navinc

Editors

Click the + to browse to associate the above extensions with:

C:/Program Files / Windows NT / Accessories / wordpad.exe

Invisible Elements

All preferences

Ticked

New Document

Default extension

.html*

* NOTE this preference is not set by edit preferences but by editing the file MMDocumentTypes.xml This file is generally found in C:/ Program Files / Macromedia MX 2004 / Configuration / DocumentTypes / MMDocumentTypes.xml.

Open this file, either in Dreamweaver or in a text editing application such as wordpad.exe. Scroll to the third line of code and change the winfileextension field to have html as the first item in the list and htm as the second, ie winfileextension=“html,htm,…”

to convert the default type to .html rather than .htm

Site

Always show	Remote Files
On the	Right
Prompt on get/check out	Tick**
Prompt on put/check in	Tick These options need to be ticked initially but will appear as unticked once the preference is correctly set. See below for more information

Setting the Dependent files prompt preferences

NOTE that this preference is not set when editing preferences, but when accessing files on one of your remote sites.

Once the other preferences have all been set through edit preferences, you can then proceed to setting up your Dreamweaver sites. The settings for the following two preferences cannot be set until you are connecting to your remote site in Dreamweaver.

When checking out a file in Dreamweaver you may get the following message, depending on the method you are using to check-out:

Click Don't show me this message again and click No.

Similarly, when checking in a file, the message shown below may be displayed:

Click Don't show me this message again and click No.

All the required preferences are now set.