Edit Your User Settings

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If you want to make Confluence fit you, like a well-worn pair of sneakers, you can set some preferences that will make you feel more at home:

General User Preferences

To edit your general user settings:

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  2. Choose Edit and update the settings

  3. Choose Submit

Setting

Description

Site Homepage

Select the page that you would like to see whenever you log into Confluence.

Language

Select your language. See below.

Time zone

Select your time zone.

Use Keyboard Shortcuts

Enable keyboard shortcuts, other than for the editor.

Text selectTurn off the popup options panel when highlighting text.


Screenshot: Editing your user profile settings

 

More about Language

Setting your language preference in your user profile is described in the section above. This section gives more information about that setting and other settings that affect the language Confluence will use.

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Editor Preferences

You can set some options that determine the way the Confluence editor works. Note that these settings affect only you. Other people using Confluence can enable or disable the settings on their user profiles independently.

To change your editor preferences:

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  2. Click Editor under 'Your Settings' in the left-hand panel
  3. Click Edit and make your changes

  4. Click  Submit

Setting

Description

Disable Autocomplete

Select to disable autocompletion when you press one of the trigger characters.

Disable Autoformatting

Select to disable autoformatting when you type wiki markup in the editor. Click ? on the editor toolbar to learn more.


Screenshot: User settings for the editor


Last modified on Oct 6, 2021

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