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Text characters meant to print black on paper should be formatted with the Auto color. Text formatted with the Auto color will edit and print easily, regardless of the current screen color settings of Windows or Atlantis.
The "Edit" settings
The 'Edit' settings

You can normally access this dialog by choosing the "Tools | Options..." menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

Main menu
command or clicking the Change settings Button image button of the Help toolbar The 'Help' toolbar .

Select whole words automatically

When this option is on, dragging the mouse to select text causes Atlantis to automatically selects entire words.

When this option is off, individual characters are selected instead.

Note that you can still select individual characters even when this option is on: as soon as Atlantis selects an entire word, back the mouse up a bit, and keep dragging the mouse to select that word partially.

Anticipatory scrolling

This option controls how the document window is scrolled when you press the cursor keys: , , , , Home, End.

When this option is on, and the paragraph line with the cursor is not currently in view, Atlantis scrolls the document window to bring the current paragraph line and a few more neighboring lines below or above it into view. So actual scrolling is done less often, but is more discrete.

When this option is off, only the current paragraph line is brought into view.

Format without selection

When this option is on, and there is no selection in the document, the font formatting operations (bold, italic, etc) are applied to the current document word. For example, you can press CtrlB to apply bold to the entire word at the current cursor position without selecting it first.

When this option is off, and there is no selection in the document, the font formatting operations do not get immediately applied to the document text. You need to type some text at this cursor position for the new font formatting to be automatically applied to that new text.

Treat Internet addresses as words

When this option is on, Atlantis treats Internet addresses (emails, Web addresses, etc) in your document as words. For example, when this option is on, you can select an Internet address by double-clicking it. Or you can skip over an Internet address by pressing Ctrl or Ctrl.

When this option is off, Internet addresses are in most cases treated as a series of separate words.

Tab and Backspace change list levels

When this option is on, you can promote and demote items of outline lists by pressing Tab and Backspace.

Use Ctrl+Click to follow hyperlink

When this option is on, you can follow ("open") hyperlinks only by Ctrl+clicking them.

When this option is off, you do not need to hold the Ctrl key pressed when clicking hyperlinks to follow them.

Highlight instances of selected text

Toggles the Highlight instances of selected text feature on or off.

Drag & Drop

This option enables or disables the Drag & Drop feature.

Group undo

When this option is on, Atlantis undoes / redoes text typing by entire words.

When this option is off, these operations are undone / redone "character by character".

Undo after save

When this option is on, you can undo operations even after you have saved the document.

When this option is off, saving a document clears the "undo" history, and the "Undo" command becomes unavailable.

Find word at cursor

When this option is on, and you open the Find / Replace window (for example, when you choose the "Edit | Find..." menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

Main menu
command), Atlantis picks up the word at the current cursor position, and places it in the Find what box of the Find / Replace window.

When this option is off, the contents of the Find what box remains unchanged.

Smart Cut & Paste

When this option is on, Atlantis might delete spare spaces, or insert missing spaces at the current cursor position every time you delete selected text, cut selection to the clipboard, paste the clipboard contents, or make changes with Drag & Drop.

Clipboard History

When this option is on, any information that goes to the clipboard, is collected by Atlantis as separate clips under the drop-down menu of the Paste Button image button of the Edit toolbar The 'Edit' toolbar :

Clipboard History

You can click any of the collected items in this menu to insert the corresponding clip to the active document.

The Clipboard History is cleared on program close.

Fast navigation

Toggles the Fast navigation feature on or off.

Default formatting for hyperlinks

Use these options to specify desired formatting for hyperlinks created when you choose the "Insert | Hyperlink..." menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

Main menu
command or click the Insert hyperlink Button image button of the Insert toolbar The 'Insert' toolbar . This default formatting is also used by the AutoCorrect tool to convert Internet addresses into clickable hyperlinks.

Text Cursor Options...

Allows to choose the width and color of the text cursors used in the document window of Atlantis. You can also enable additional indicators to improve visibility of text cursors in Atlantis.

"Save to File..." and "Load from File..."

Click the Save to File... button to save all the current Atlantis settings to an external INI file. To load the saved settings from such an INI file, click the Load from File... button.

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