Quick View Plus


5: Customizing Quick View Plus


You can customize Quick View Plus to adapt to the ways you use it. You can change the following:

View Window

Show or hide the Toolbar, Status Bar, and File Navigator; specify how Quick View Plus displays each new view window; specify how Quick View Plus should handle unsupported file types; specify whether you want to display the Quick View Plus logo in the view window.

Display

Specify the default font for text; specify the character set for files whose format is unknown to Quick View Plus; specify the format in which to view files: file-type-specific format, text (Standard, Windows, DOS, or Unicode), or hexadecimal; specify how to display spreadsheets, databases, and archive files (turn gridlines on or off, and select a sorting order)

Printing

Specify the Quick View Plus font, page headers, and page margins (for all file types); gridlines, row names, column names, and field names (for spreadsheets and databases); borders and aspect ratio (for bitmaps and drawings)

Clipboard Format

Specify file formats and fonts (for all file types); table or tab format (for spreadsheets and databases)

Navigation

Specify the location of the Folder Tree and Folder Contents within the File Navigation pane; specify how archive files and decompressed contents are displayed

Note icon Changing the settings in an open Quick View Plus session does not affect subsequently opened sessions until you close the window in which you made the changes. After you close that window, the changes become the default settings for all new Quick View Plus sessions.

5.1 Customizing the View Window

When customizing the view window you can:

Showing or Hiding Viewing Tools

On the View menu, the first three selections – Toolbar, Status Bar, File Navigator – allow you select whether or not you wish to view these viewing tools. By clicking on one of these selections in the View menu, you can toggle the check mark to the right on or off, which will show or hide that particular viewing tool.

Specifying Settings for New View Windows

  1. On the View menu, click Options.
  2. In the Options dialog box, click the General tab.
  3. In the New Views Have control, do one of the following:
    • To apply the view window settings used in the most-recently closed Quick View Plus session to all new view windows (that is, all new views will have the same Toolbar, Status Bar, Pin settings, and File Navigation settings as the last view), select the Auto check box.
Note icon When Auto (the default) is selected, the other options become unavailable.

5.2 Customizing the Display

You can specify the default font for text and the character set for files whose format is unknown to Quick View Plus. You can also specify how to display spreadsheets, databases, and archive files (turn gridlines on or off and select a sorting order).

To Customize the Display

  1. On the View menu, click Options.
  2. In the Quick View Plus Options dialog box, click the Display tab.
  3.  
     
    File type or origin
    Default
    • Files for which not font information is available
    • Word-processing files in Draft mode
    • ASCII and ANSI text files
    • Database files
    10-point Arial; ANSI 8-bits (the Windows character set, with extended characters)
    Spreadsheet
    Gridlines displayed
    Database
    Gridlines displayed
    Archive
    Filenames sorted in the order in which they were added to the archive
  4. Do one or more of the following:
    • If you want to change the default font for text, click Change and select a different font from the Font dialog box.
    • If you want to change the character set used to display files containing no font information, click the appropriate radio button.
    • If you want to turn the display of gridlines off or on for spreadsheets and databases, click More, and then click the appropriate check box(es) in the More Display Options dialog box to check or uncheck the selections.
    • If you want to sort archive files in ascending or descending order by name, size, or date and time, click More and then click the appropriate check box(es) in the More Display Options dialog box.
  5. Click OK.

5.3 Customizing the View Format

You can specify the format in which you want to view certain files.

To Specify the View Format

  1. On the View menu, click View As.
  2. On the submenu, select a format.
Note icon When viewing text or HTML documents, you can use the Text Encoding or HTML Encoding item in the view menu to select the character set that Quick View Plus will use to display the current file. For each of these types of documents, the character set you choose will be used to display all future files of that type. To display characters in a foreign character set, you must have a font installed on your system that supports that particular character set.

5.4 Customizing Printing

You can customize Quick View Plus print settings, as well as how specific file types are printed.

Quick View Plus uses the following defaults for print settings:

 
Characteristic
Default
Font (for unknown fonts and for spreadsheets and databases)
10-point Arial
Header
10-point Arial, with the filename on the left and the page number on the right, enclosed in a shaded rectangular border
Margins
1 inch on the top, bottom, left, and right

To Customize the Print Settings

  1. On the View menu, click Options.
  2. In the Quick View Plus Options dialog, click the Print tab.
  3. Do one or more of the following; when available, you may check the effects of your changes by looking at the Sample box.
  4.  
     
    Adjusting printed page characteristics
    Do this
    Change the default font for text
    In the Default Font control, click Change, and then select a font, it’s style and size in the Font dialog box.
    Specify whether to print a header
    In the Header & Header font control, select or clear the Print header check box.
    Change the font for the header
    In the Header & Header font control, click Change, and then select a font, it’s style and size in the Font dialog box.
    Specify what to print on the left side of the header
    Type the text in the text box within the Job Name control (the default, %F, prints the filename).
    Change the page margins
    In the Default Page Margins control, click the up or down arrows to increase or decrease the top, bottom, left and right margins on the page.
    Specify whether to use the margins and paper size of the viewed document
    In the Default Page Margins control, select or clear the Use margins and paper size of original document, if known.

Quick View Plus uses the following defaults for printing the following file types:

 
File Type
Default
Spreadsheets
Gridlines and the names of rows and columns are printed; print job is adjusted to the size of a single page
Databases
Gridlines and field names are printed; print job is adjusted to the size of a single page
Bitmaps and drawings
Original aspect ratio is used (the relationship of height to width)

To Customize Printed Characteristics of Specific File Types

  1. On the View menu, click Options.
  2. In the Quick View Plus Options dialog, click the Print tab.
  3. Click the More… button to open the More Print Options dialog.
  4. Do one or more of the following:
  5.  
     
    Adjusting printed file type characteristics
    Do this
    Change the settings for spreadsheets
    In the Spreadsheet control, click the appropriate check boxes and radio buttons to set spreadsheet print options.
    Change the settings for databases
    In the Database control, click the appropriate check boxes and radio buttons to set database print options.
    Change the settings for bitmaps
    In the Bitmap control, click the appropriate check boxes and radio buttons to set bitmap print options.
    Change the settings for drawings
    In the Drawing control, click the appropriate check boxes and radio buttons to set drawing print options.

5.5 Customizing the Clipboard Format

Quick View Plus uses the following defaults when copying information to the Clipboard:

 
Characteristic
Default
File formats
Text
Rich text format (RTF)
Bitmap (BMP)
Device-independent bitmap (DIB)
Metafile
Palette
Font (for copying text from spreadsheets and databases, and text for which no format information is available)
10-point Arial
Spreadsheet data
Copies as a table
Database data
Copies as a table and includes field names

To Customize the Clipboard Formats, Fonts, and Options

  1. On the View menu, click Options.
  2. In the Options dialog box, click the Clipboard tab.
  3. Do one or more of the following:
  4.  
     
    To
    Do this
    Specify the formats placed on the Clipboard
    Select or clear the appropriate check boxes for each format
    Change the default font for the Clipboard
    Click Change, then select a font, it’s style and size in the Font dialog box.
    Specify how spreadsheet data is formatted when pasted to your word processor:
    • To use table format
    • To omit tables for blank fields
    • To include tabs for blank fields
    Click More… in the Clipboard tab, then in the Spreadsheet control in the More Clipboard Options dialog, click:
    • Copy as Table
    • Copy using optimized tabs
    • Copy using tabs
    Specify how database data is formatted when pasted to your word processor:
    • To use table format
    • To omit tabs for blank fields
    • To include tabs for blank fields
    • To include field names in the pasted area
    Click More… in the Clipboard tab, then in the Database control in the More Clipboard Options dialog, click:
    • Copy as table
    • Copy using optimized tabs
    • Copy using tabs
    • Include field names

5.6 Customizing Navigation

To Customize File Navigation Orientation

  1. From the menu bar, click View, then click Options….
  2. In the Quick View Plus Options dialog, select the Navigation tab.
  3. In the File Navigation Options control, click the appropriate button for either left-hand side or top attachment File Navigation orientation.
  4. Click OK.

To Customize Archive File Viewing

  1. From the menu bar, click View, then click Options….
  2. In the Quick View Plus Options dialog, select the Navigation tab.
  3. In the Archive View Option control, you may select/deselect the View the contents of an archive and a decompressed file in a split window checkbox if you wish to turn on/off this function. By deselecting this checkbox, the If an archive contains one file, automatically decompress and view it checkbox option will be made unavailable.
  4. Click OK.