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You can customise Confluence by choosing your Confluence settings and preferences:
- General preferences such as home page, language and time zone, as described below.
- Editor settings, as described below.
- Email settings for subscriptions to Email Reports. Please refer to Subscribing to Email Notifications.
- OAuth access tokens that you have granted from your Confluence user account. Please refer to Viewing and Revoking OAuth Access Tokens.
Setting your General User Preferences
To edit your general user settings,
Go to the 'Settings' view for your user profile. To do this:
- Log in to Confluence, if you have not already done so.
- Go to your name at the top of the page. (This is the 'User' menu. A dropdown list will appear when your cursor hovers over the 'User' menu.)
- Select 'Settings' from the dropdown list. The 'Settings' view will open.
- Click the 'Edit' button.
- Choose your General Settings in the form that is displayed:
- Site Homepage — choose the page that you would like to see whenever you log into Confluence.
- Language — choose your language.
- Time zone — choose your time zone.
- Click the 'Submit' button.
Screenshot : Editing your User Profile Settings
Setting your 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,
Go to the 'Settings' view for your user profile. To do this:
- Log in to Confluence, if you have not already done so.
- Go to your name at the top of the page. (This is the 'User' menu. A dropdown list will appear when your cursor hovers over the 'User' menu.)
- Select 'Settings' from the dropdown list. The 'Settings' view will open.
- Click 'Editor' under 'Your Settings' in the left-hand panel.
- Click the 'Edit' button.
- Update the following settings to suit your preferences:
- 'Disable Autocomplete' – Put a tick in this check box if you want to prevent the autocomplete from starting automatically when you press one of the trigger characters. See Using Autocomplete in the Rich Text Editor.
- Click the 'Submit' button.
Screenshot: User Settings for the Editor
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