Preferences Dialog Box |
The Preferences dialog allows you to control different aspects of Mathcad's appearance and interface.
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General tab |
Displays Mathcad Tips when you start the application.
Sets the keystrokes to those used in standard Windows applications. When unchecked, the keystrokes are set to those used in early versions of Mathcad. Many menu commands display the keyboard shortcuts.
Allows the = key to insert the evaluation equal sign when it is to the right of a defined variable and the definition symbol (:=) when it is to the right of an undefined variable.
Sets the number of recently opened worksheets displayed in the File menu. The default is 4 worksheets.
Controls how many actions can be undone. The history length can be set to any number between 20 and 200; the default value is 100.
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File Locations Tab |
Sets the directory that the Open and Save As dialog boxes point to the first time after starting the application. Also used to set the location of CWD (Current Working Directory).
Sets the website that Mathcad maps to the My Site entry on the Resources toolbar.
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HTML Options tab |
The HTML Options tab allows you to control how Mathcad exports documents to HTML format. Mathcad documents can be saved as HTML with images for math regions. These options can also be set on a per-document basis when using Save as Web Page.
PNG: PNG is lossless, so files may be larger, but retain more image fidelity.
JPEG: If you select JPEG, you can also set the compression Quality. The higher you set this value, the less the images are compressed and the larger the resulting files will be.
Fixed: Fixed positioning uses position absolute tags for styles, mimicking the Mathcad layout but making it hard to add other HTML code.
Relative: Relative positioning exports Mathcad content into an HTML table. Relative positioning must be selected to use HTML export templates.
Choose a template file, if desired. Templates wrap your Mathcad document with additional HTML output and can only be used if "Relative positioning" is chosen for layout. Templates are useful for creating a uniform look and navigation to many Mathcad documents when creating large websites. See the Author's Reference for additional instructions.
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Warnings tab |
The Warnings tab sets Mathcad to flag, with a green wavy underscore, any region that redefines an existing mathematical term. By doing so, you can more easily trace the redefinition of functions, variables, and units, to track calculation errors in your worksheet. Mathcad notifies you when the worksheet redefines either built-in or user-defined terms.
Built In Functions: Flags when a function name is redefined, highlighted with a green wavy line below the redefined name.
Units: Flags when a built-in unit is redefined as a variable.
Constants: Flags when a built-in constant such as pi is redefined.
Variables: Flags when a built-in variable is redefined. Mathcad's built-in variables are TOL, CTOL, ORIGIN, CWD, PRNPRECISION, PRNCOLWIDTH, ERR, and the input variables in0 - in9.
User Defined terms
Functions: Flags when a function name is redefined.
Scalar Variables: Flags when a scalar is redefined.
Vectors and Matrices: Flags when an array element is redefined.
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Script Security tab |
The Script Security tab allows you to control how Mathcad handles scriptable components. Scriptable Components can use a scripting language, such as VBScript or JScript, to control the interaction between Mathcad and the underlying application, and may potentially contain harmful code.
Automatically disables all scriptable components present in a worksheet when that worksheet is opened. To enable a disabled component, right-click on it and choose Enable Evaluation.
Prompts you when opening a worksheet containing a scriptable component. Clicking on Yes disables all scriptable components in the worksheet.
Opens the worksheet without disabling scriptable components.
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Language Tab |
The Language tab controls how Mathcad handles language and country-specific settings.
Specifies the language for menus and dialogs.
Specifies the language for functions and units.
Specifies the language for the spellchecker. You have the choice of nine different languages or none.
Specifies the particular regional variety of the specified language for the spellchecker.
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Save Tab |
The Save tab allows you to change settings for Autosave, default file format, and file repository locations.
Choose Autosave on or off. When Autosave is on, all files create a backup copy of themselves at the end of each Autosave period. Set the Autosave time period, in minutes, in the corresponding text box. If you close Mathcad with no errors, autosaved files are removed. After a crash or other save failure, you are prompted to restore autosaved file versions when you open a file with an autosaved version. For previously unsaved files with no file name, the restore dialog appears the next time you start Mathcad.
Sets the default file format for saving Mathcad worksheets.
The available choices for file formats are:
Mathcad XML Document - a text-based file format suitable for integrating into document-management systems. Files are saved with the .XMCD extension.
Mathcad Compressed XML Document - a binary version of the XML document format, which can be decoded into readable XML. Files are saved with the .XMCDZ extension.
WebDAV is a protocol that allows you to save files onto servers that are not part of your local file network. This option sets the address for the file repository or server you access through the Save to Designate choice on the File menu. If you are using Mathsoft's Designate file repository, then you should enter that URL in this text box.