to change advanced preferences e.g. server messages, and the program to view documents in source format. </TD></TR>
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<FONT COLOR="#008000"><A HREF="#fonts"><B>Font and background</B></A></FONT>
</TD><TD valign=top>
to change typefaces in documents as well as background. You can change typefaces and colours for different types of text: standard text, titles etc.</TD></TR>
to change display of links, both before and after they have been visited, You can choose different colours, or whether they should have borders.</TD></TR>
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<B>OK</B> - saves the your settings
<BR>
<B>Help</B> - displays this help page
<BR>
<B>Cancel</B> - discard chosen settings; uses the previous settings.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">User Interface</FONT>
<BR>
<B>Display menu at Start</B> - if you activate this option, the main menu bar [File | Edit | View | ...] is displayed at program startup. If you turn it off it is not displayed. You can also toggle it on and off with <B>F11</B>.
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<B>Automatic New Windows</B> - if you choose this, a new window will be displayed when you use either direct addressing or the address list to retrieve a document.
<BR>
If you want a new window when you select a link, hold down the <B>SHIFT</B> key while clicking on a link.
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<B>Automatic Window Tile</B> - if you choose this, space will be made for new windows to be displayed, i.e. the other windows will become smaller and moved to provide space.
<BR>
Remember that the 'new windows in the background' option via <B>SHIFT-CTRL-Click</B> does not work if this option is turned ON.
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<B>History (lines)</B> - here you choose whether the program will remember which sites you have already visited before, and the number of addresses. History is used when navigating.
<P>
<B>Direct addressing (lines)</B> - here you choose whether the program shall remember addresses used in direct addressing and the total number. This box is opened via <B>F2</B>.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Start</FONT>
<BR>
Opera can start up in 3 different modes:
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>With saved windows and history</B> - You can either save a particular setup, or the setup each time you leave the programme, so that Opera starts where it ended the previous session.
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<B>With saved windows and homepages</B> - Opera remembers the last saved setup (window positioning and size), and loads the local Homepage in each window.
<P>
<B>With one window and homepage</B> - Opera starts up with one window and the global Homepage.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>
<A NAME="buttonstatus"><FONT SIZE="5">Button and Status bar</FONT></A>
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Button Bar</FONT>
<BR>
You can choose between <B>simple</B> or <B>full buttonbar</B> or <B>no buttonbar</B> at all.
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
With the <B>simple button bar</B>, you only see the most essential buttons for navigation.With full button bar, you also see buttons to open new windows, load documents from disk, save documents, print documents, copy text and search within documents.
<P>
If you choose <B>small graphics on the buttons and the full button bar</B>, you will also see additional buttons to control windows (tiled or cascaded).
<P>
<B>No buttons</B> deactivates the button bar.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Buttons</FONT>
<BR>
You can choose whether you want buttons with small or large icons, small icons and text, or only text.
<P>
You can also decide whether or not to have a border around the icons.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Help for the buttons</FONT>
<BR>
You can choose whether help is displayed for the buttons (in the Status line):
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Always</B> - when the pointer is on the button
<BR>
<B>When clicked</B> - only when you click on the button
<BR>
<B>Never</B>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Force small buttons for...</FONT>
<BR>
Large buttons may be inconvenient for all windows. This settings override those in "Buttons".
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Status line</FONT>
<BR>
You can choose whether a Status line is displayed above or below the main window or not at all. The Status line is used to show addresses when you move the pointer over links, and to display help on the buttons. If you have chosen to display help text in its own window ( a little yellow one) when the pointer is on buttons and links, you may not need the Status line.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Popup Help</FONT>
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>TextPopup address of links</B> - select this option if you'd like the address of a link to be displayed when the pointer is moved over a link in a document for more than a second. The address is displayed in a small window with yellow background.
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<B>Popup button description</B> - select this option is you'd like help to be displayed when the pointer is over a button in the toolbar for more than a second. Help is displayed in a small window with a yellow background.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Fonts and colors</FONT>
<BR>
Customise the appearance the buttons and the progress display. Inactive text is used when a button is disabled.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Default Window setup</FONT>
<BR>
You can choose whether new windows will have a scroll bar, progress field (and history) or possibly a local button bar (news windows).
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Default scaling</FONT>
<BR>
You can choose to have new windows use a different scaling than 100%, so that elements (text AND graphics become bigger or smaller. This is ideal to preconfigure the settings for people with vision problems.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Source viewer</FONT>
<BR>
Here you can select which editor you would like to load to display the source code of your HTML document.
<P>
Source files are useful for learning how to create your own documents, but take care, for some documents do not always follow the current style standards and so are not recommended for copying. You can connect to the Opera Software AS pages (<A HREF="http://www.operasoftware.com" target=_blank>http://www.operasoftware.com</A>) to see examples of correct usage. The default program is 'Write' in Windows.
<P>
You can also click on the 'Browse' button for an easy search for programs to use.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Telnet program</FONT>
<BR>
Choose a program for remote logic on other hosts. You usually require a user name and password to gain access. You must buy Telnet separately from your supplier.
<P>
You can also click on 'Browse' to search for a program to use.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Opera user directory</FONT>
<BR>
Type in the name of the directory for the Opera files. Disk cache will normally reside in a directory under the Opera directory. If you wish to do so, you can choose another place for the cache directory by changing the following entry in your opera.ini file, under [USER PREFS] :
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
CACHE DIRECTORY = <directory path>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Performance</FONT>
<BR>
Here you can specify the parameters that affect the speed of the program.
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Max number of connections to any one</B> - Opera can retrieve many files from the same server simultaneously. This makes retrieval faster. This number should be high for speed, but be aware that a high number can prevent others from retrieving files.
<BR>
<B>Max number of connections</B> - Opera can also retrieve documents from many servers simultaneously. Here you can set how many files in total can be retrieved simultaneously from different servers. The number should be high for speed, except if Opera is not performing well. Some winsock programs cannot retrieve many files simultaneously, in the worst case you must set the limit at 1.
<BR>
<B>Size of Network Buffer</B> - the network buffer is used to cache data retrieved from the network. You can change the size to increase the speed in some systems, If you have retrieval problems you should set it to 1.
<BR>
<B>Synchronous DNS</B> - Opera retrieves information asynchronously. This means that Opera does not have to wait while it retrieves - you can begin to read documents while they are being retrieved. Some winsock programs are not able to retrieve asynchronously, so you must then use Synchronous DNS. This makes document loading slower, and the program hangs while the machine retrieves information from the Name Server.
A server will send a message giving a reason if you cannot retrieve information from it. These messages are usually in English. Opera lets you choose how the message should be handled:
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Always show server response</B> - if you choose this, Opera will always display server messages.
<BR>
<B>Always show dialog box</B> - if you choose this Opera will display a dialog box with the initial server message. Subsequent information is not displayed.
<BR>
<B>Show response from server when appropriate</B> - if you choose this, Opera will display a dialog box if the messages are recognised. If there is a lengthier message, this is displayed instead.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Logging</FONT>
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Enable Referrer logging</B>: Do you want Opera to send information referring to the page from where the document or picture was requested?
<P>
<B>Enable Cookie Logging</B>: Cookies allow the server to store information <U>on your disk</U>. Many scripts have started to use this and will not work without it.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<BR>
<BR>
<A NAME="fonts"><FONT SIZE="5">Font and Background</FONT></A>
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Here you can choose between typefaces for elements within a document. Click on an element in the list and then on the 'Change' button (or double-click on an element) to choose typeface, size and colour for it.
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Font and background (buttons)</B>
<BR>
<B>OK</B> - save the chosen setup.
<BR>
<B>Help</B> - display this help page.
<BR>
<B>Cancel</B> - abort new setup. Uses the previously displayed set-up.
<BR>
<B>Change</B> - change style (typeface, size, colour) for the selected element in the list on the left.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Always use this color as background</FONT>
<BR>
In Opera you can choose the background colour to suit yourself. In addition you can define whether you will use this all the time, or only when there is no colour or background design/template in the document displayed.
<P>
Opera also allows you to specify this in realtime for each individual window. Just click on the colour button in the status bar to toggle between your own and the documents' font and background settings.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Always use my font and link colors</FONT>
<BR>
Some documents allow choice of colour for text and links. If you wish to make your own choice, click here.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Always use my fonts</FONT>
<BR>
Some documents use different fonts. If you want to use your own settings, check this box.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Invert Marked Text</FONT>
<BR>
At present, Opera shows a border around links when you tab through them. By checking this box, Opera will invert the link, rather than frame it.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Not visited</FONT>
<BR>
Here you can decide how links that you have not recently visited, are displayed. You can choose a colour and whether the link is underlined or scored through. Click on the 'Change colour' button to choose a colour.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Text links</FONT>
<BR>
Here you decide whether link text in a document is displayed as bold or italic, and if there should be a border round the link. This makes it easier to identify links, as many documents make random use of colour, confusing the user what is a link and what isn't.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Image links</FONT>
<BR>
In some documents no border is specified for some or all graphics links. If you always wish to have a border round graphics links, so that it is easy to see them, click here.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Visited</FONT>
<BR>
Here you can choose how the links you have recently visited are displayed. You can choose the colour and whether the link shall be underlined or scored through. Click on the 'Change colour' button to choose the colour.
It is possible to choose how long a link shall remain marked as visited, so that it is not permanent. The time limits are from 1 hour to 99 days and 99 hours.
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Although multimedia presentations can be quite interesting, they may also lead to slow response time. Therefore it is important to be able to turn off multimedia. You can choose to disable animation, video, background sound/music, plugins and Javascript.
<P>
In addition you choose whether to allow document controlled loading. A number of documents have begun to set times which say how often they shall be loaded. If this has been chosen, Opera automatically loads new versions of such documents. In some cases new documents are also loaded and the effect is like a film preview.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Images</FONT>
<BR>
You can choose between the following options:
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Do not load and show images</B> - Says it all! Surfing at high-speed!
<BR>
<B>Show loaded images only</B> - If this option is selected, alternative text will be displayed instead, if it has been defined in the documents. This choice can be made for each window, so you can display figures in one and not in another. Click on the camera at the bottom of the document window to switch on or off in each window.
<BR>
<B>Show and load images</B> - All images will be loaded and displayed.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Frames</FONT>
<BR>
Checking this disables frame support. Frames will not display for new documents.
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If you wish to send electronic mail using Opera you must provide the following information:
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<B>Name</B> - fill in your full name.
<BR>
<B>Mail Address</B> - fill in your e-mail address so that addressees can reply to your messages. The address must be of the type name@address, eg. Ola.Olsen@opera.no. Ask your Internet supplier or support personnel for your e-mail address.
<BR>
<B>Mail Server</B> - Opera must use an external machine to send mail. You must provide the details here. Ask your support personnel or Internet supplier for the address of this machine.
<BR>
<B>Store outgoing mail in</B>:
<BR>
If you'd like Opera to save outgoing mails, please enter the name of the file where Opera saves the messages.
<P>
Even though Opera can send messages, it is better to have your own mail program, so that it can also receive messages. If you have such a program you can fill in the details in the box marked External Mail Application. You can also use the 'Browse' button to find your e-mail program.
<P>
<B>Signature file</B>
<BR>
Opera can add a signature to every mail message you send. Here you can specify which file is to be used. The file must be text only and not very long. It is not popular to send messages with long signatures on the Internet.
<BR>
<BR>
<A NAME="news"><FONT SIZE="5">News</FONT></A>
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Opera can read news and discussion groups. You must describe the machine that Opera will read the news from. Ask your Internet supplier or support personnel for the address of such a machine.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Default group sorting</FONT>
<BR>
You can set a standard sorting for groups, by date, sender or subject.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Subject threads</FONT>
<BR>
In the different subject groups there are often certain themes (threads) which have a long list of replies and comments. To gain a better overview of the different themes you can turn on display of subject threads. Then all relating to one subject will be in a row. You can then click on the first group image in the row to retrieve the answer to the first message, and so on..
<P>
If you wish to see all the input from one person it is better to turn off subject threads. Sorting and subject threads can also be chosen for each news window directly.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Group windows</FONT>
<BR>
In Opera you can choose to have one or more group windows for each overview window with a list of the group windows. The default is to have one such window so that there are not too many windows. However if you like to see multiple windows simultaneously, you can do so. You can also choose to use the overview window itself as a group window.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Article Window</FONT>
<BR>
In Opera you can choose whether to have one or more article windows for each group window. The default is to have one such window, so that there are not too many windows. However if you like to have many windows open simultaneously, you can do so. You can also choose to use the group window as an article window.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Max. articles read from group</FONT>
<BR>
Many newsgroups contains several thousands messages. Downloading the headers for all those can be very time-consuming. This setting limits the number of headers to retrieve.
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Here you can see the associations made between different types of documents and the handling they should have after retrieval. When Opera loads a file, the program checks this list to find out what to do with the file. These are so-called MIME types, a general method for describing types on the Internet. You can also define your own types for retrieving files from disk. You must give the extension to be associated with the type.
<P>
Opera can display HTML files (normal document format), normal text, GIF, JPEG , XBM and BMP graphics files. In addition Opera can display AVI video (Video for Windows 1.1 must be installed) and play WAV sound files and MIDI music files, if a sound card is installed. Other types will be displayed as text.
<P>
The file types which Opera itself cannot display correctly can be viewed with other programs. In 'Associate' you decide which program shall display individual file types. You can e.g. load sound files and hear them with an audio player, load text and view it in a text editor, and load accounts and view them in your accounts program, etc.
<P>
You can also configure Opera to ask what should be done with a particular file type when it is loaded. When you load the file, you will be asked whether Opera should display the file, display it with another program or save it.
<P>
<B>Associate - Buttons</B>
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>OK</B> - save chosen set-up.
<BR>
<B>New</B> - add a new type to the list.
<BR>
<B>Change</B> - change the name for a type in the list.
<BR>
<B>Delete</B> - delete a type from the list.
<BR>
<B>Help</B> - show this help page.
<BR>
<B>Cancel</B> - do not save the chosen set-up. Use the previous set-up displayed when you opened the dialog box.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<B>Associate - Type</B>
<BR>
Here you choose which type you will change the set-up for. i.e. change the extensions associated with the type, or change what will happen when Opera retrieves a file of that type. The list is sorted in name order.
<P>
<B>Associate - Extensions</B>
<BR>
Her you provide the file extensions which belong to the file type.
<P>
<B>Associate - Action</B>
<BR>
Here you decide how files of different types that you load are handled. You can choose whether a document shall be displayed as text in Opera, if it should be saved, if it will be displayed using a particular external program, or whatever else you wish. You can click on the 'Browse' button to find the program you will use to see documents.
<P>
<B>Associate - Show with plugin</B>
<BR>
Opera now support a variety of plugins. If you want a specific file extension to be associated with a plugin, let Opera find the related plugin, and activate this radio button. Opera will then load the plugin and play the associated file whenever you load it.
<P>
<B>Associate - Type Handling</B>
<BR>
If you ENABLE this option, you will trust the server to return correct types all the time.
<BR>
<BR>
<A NAME="cache"><FONT SIZE="5">Cache</FONT></A>
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Disk-cache</FONT>
<BR>
Here you choose which types of document shall be cached to disk. It is an advantage to cache documents for faster retrieval.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">RAM-cache</FONT>
<BR>
Here you choose whether documents will be cached in RAM and how much room you will allow for that. Caching in RAM gives faster navigating through search history, so it is an advantage to allow a large cache if your machine has enough memory.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Disk-cache size</FONT>
<BR>
Here you choose how much space Opera will use on the disk for document caching. You are advised to set the number as high as possible, within the limits of free disk space, so that more documents can be retrieved from cache and not from external machines.
<P>
Please remember, however, that caches larger than 4MB may cause Opera to load slower on older machines.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Empty disk-cache</FONT>
<BR>
You can choose whether disk-cache is emptied when you leave the program. RAM-cache (fast memory) will be emptied in any case. If you choose to empty disk-cache Opera takes longer next time to retrieve the documents. You can also tidy up the archive, which is useful if it is corrupted. It should not be necessary to clean the archive after a machine hang for Opera itself tidies up errors in the archive.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Check Modified</FONT>
<BR>
You can choose how often Opera checks that documents, figures and other files have been changed on a server. If you investigate too often, document display will take a little longer, if you check too little there is a danger that you do not see the latest changes in a document. This is especially important if the documents you look at change often. In some cases the document itself states how often there will be a new version. Then Opera will automatically retrieve a new version when you choose that document.
<P>
You can always retrieve a document you think has been changed, and use the 'Reload' button or 'Reload' choice in the 'Navigate' menu.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Offline Browsing Mode</FONT>
<BR>
If you want to surf the cache sites offline, ENABLE this option. This will ensure that Opera will not try to retrieve the information online, but rather from the cache. This setting makes it easier to toggle between offline and online mode.
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A proxy-server is a machine that retrieves documents on command. The advantage with a
proxy-server is at that it often caches documents. This often means that it is faster to
retrieve documents from a proxy-server than direct from a machine abroad or a remote
machine in your own country.
<P>
Opera contains no direct support for WAIS or Gopher directly, and needs to use a proxy-
server to retrieve documents from those types of server.
<P>
Here you decide whether Opera will use proxy-servers to retrieve documents, and which chall be used. Usually you can use the same server for all protocols. You can also choose that Opera shall not use a proxy on certain servers. This is a sensible choice if the machines are near (local machines), because it will be faster to go direct than to use a proxy. Caching on a proxy-server is only advantageous if the proxy is more easily accessed (physically nearer, less used, or with better connections).
<P>
In some cases you must provide a port number as well as the name of the proxy-server. You add a colon (:) after the server name, and then the port number, without a space :eg
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
www.skolen.no:8080
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
Ask you support personnel or Internet supplier for the address of your proxy-server.
<BR>
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<A NAME="sounds"><FONT SIZE="5">Sounds</FONT></A>
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Here a list of events that can be associated with a sound is shown. To associate a sound with an event, you choose first the event and then the sound.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Files</FONT>
<BR>
Here you can see sound files in a selected directory. You can browse the directory tree by double clicking in this list. The selected sound file is marked.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Enable sounds</FONT>
<BR>
Sounds are fun for a while, but can be irritating. You can turn off sound effects here.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Directory</FONT>
<BR>
Here you can see the selected directory. You select the directory from the file list.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Sound effects: Buttons</FONT>
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>OK</B> - save the chosen setup
<BR>
<B>Test</B> - listen to the selected sound.
<BR>
<B>Help</B> - display this help text.
<BR>
<B>Cancel</B> - do not save the selected setup. Use the previous choice.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">DCT Method</FONT>
<BR>
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Dithering</FONT>
<BR>
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Smoothing</FONT>
<BR>
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Passes</FONT>
<BR>
<P>
<BR>
<BR>
<A NAME="ssl"><FONT SIZE="5">Security</FONT></A>
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In this dialog box, you can change your security settings. <B>Remember</B>, however, that editing these settings without knowing the impact, can result in error messages when you connect to secure sites.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Certificates</FONT>
<BR>
Here you can edit personal and authorized security certificates.
<P>
<FONT SIZE="+1">Security Protocols</FONT>
<BR>
Here you can disable or enable various security protocols.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Show an Alert Button</FONT>
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ENABLING this option will cause in Opera prompting you before you submit a form insecurely over the Internet.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Password</FONT>
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Here you can set a password, and also determine whether it be used once per session or every time it is needed.
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<A NAME="sethome"><FONT SIZE="5">Set Home (Navigation Menu)</FONT></A>
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<B>Set Home Page</B> - Here you can enter the address that will be loaded when you click on the Home icon (the house) or select 'Home' from the 'Navigation' menu or from the ordinary popup menu (right mouse button in the document window).
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You can type the address in the text box, or click on the 'Use Active' button to retrieve the address for the document in the currently active window.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Print scale</FONT>
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To save paper, you can reduce the font size when you print pages. If you have bad eyesight, you may want to increase the scaling beyond 100%. This can be done via this field. The scaling range is from 20 - 400%.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Printer Margins</FONT>
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You can choose how big the right, left, top and bottom margins will be on the printout.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Size Control</FONT>
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By using the FONT tag in documents, it is possible to specify the size of text. These sizes vary, but usually are based on a default font size. Opera allows you to choose the display of fonts that use the FONT tag. The choice made here has no effect on normal text and documents that follow the standard HTML type declarations and definitions of headings at different levels.
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<FONT SIZE="+1">Show print header</FONT>
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If you would like to see the filename/URL and the date and time of printing on your pages, edit OPERA.INI (usually in your \Windows directory) and add this line:
