General options

Various general options are set on the General page of the "Options" dialog, reachable through the Options command from the Tools menu.

Select the units you would like to use for the rulers and measurements in dialog boxes by choosing from Inches, Centimeters, Millimeters and Points (a point is a typographical unit approximately equal to 1/72nd of an inch).

If you want a backup copy to be made of every document you create, click on the checkbox next to Create Backup. Every time a document is changed, the previous version is stored as a backup with an (abk) document extension.

To open a backup, select the Open button image\open.gif, set the Files of Type to Ability Write Backup and then make your selection from the displayed list of backup documents.

Whenever you do something in Write, you can usually undo it by clicking the Undo button (or selecting the Undo command from the Edit menu). In the Undo Steps box, type the number of actions you would like the program to remember.

Select the Smart Cut and Paste option if you'd like Ability to "intelligently" insert and delete spaces when cutting and pasting words in paragraphs.

Check the Close Blank Lines box (the default setting) if you'd like Ability to automatically close blank lines in address blocks when mail merging. Note that blank lines are not closed in the document itself – only in Print Preview or while printing.

Choose the default location for the template folder. For more details, see How Ability manages the template list.