Customize workspace appearance

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You can customize the size of user interface items, choose a theme, and change the color of window borders and the desktop.

Center dialog boxes

By default, all dialog boxes appear centered in the application window. However, you can position a dialog box where you want all dialog boxes to appear, and then disable the Center dialog boxes setting. The next time you open a dialog box, it will appear in your preferred location on the screen.

Scaling

You can change the size of user interface (UI) items by changing the scaling level. The scaling level is relative to the scaling level of the operating system. The default setting is 100%, which means that UI items in the application appear the same size as similar UI items in the operating system. Scaling by 200% makes the application UI items appear twice as large as the UI items of the operating system.

Theme

To make the workspace lighter or darker, you can choose one of the following themes: Light, Medium, Dark, or Black.

Window border color

You can customize the application window and dialog boxes by changing the color of their borders.

Desktop color

You can change the color of the desktop, the area surrounding the drawing page, to suit your documents. For example, if the document contains dark colors, you can change the desktop color from white to gray for lower contrast.

Custom desktop color

Choose colors

To choose the color you want for the desktop and window borders, you can quickly sample any onscreen color; or you can use color sliders, color viewers, or color palettes.

Various tools are available to help you change the desktop or window border color.

To change the workspace appearance

To specify a window or desktop color by using various color tools

 

To	Do the following
Sample a color	Click the Color eyedropper tool , and click an onscreen color.
Use color sliders	Click the Show color sliders button , choose a color mode from the list box, and move the sliders.
Use a color viewer	Click the Show color viewers button , choose a color mode from the list box, and click a color on the color viewer.
Choose a color from a color palette	Click the Show color palettes button , choose a color palette from the Palette Libraries, and click a color.
Access additional color options	Click the More color options button , and choose an option. The options are dependent on the selected method such as sampling or using a color viewer, color sliders or a color palette.

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