You can set various Confluence preferences that affect your personal session:

General User Preferences

To edit your general user settings:

  2. Click Edit and update the settings:

    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.
  3. Click Submit.

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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.

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:

  2. Click Editor under 'Your Settings' in the left-hand panel.

  3. Click Edit.

    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.

  4. Click Submit.

Screenshot: User settings for the editor