Changing the default measurement units

You may prefer new documents to use, for example, inches for measurements. To do this, change the template document.

To change the default units

1. From the File menu, choose Open. This opens a new blank document.

2. From the Utilities menu, choose Options.

3. Click the Units tab.

4. From the Page units drop-down, select the required units. For example inches.

5. Click OK to close the dialog box.

6. From the File Menu, choose Save Template.

7. Select Use as Default Template. This saves the template document with the new paper size.

This change applies to all new documents. It has no effect on existing documents.

Tips

To change the page size for only the document you are working on, skip steps 6 & 7.

In the same way, you can change the font measurement units.

Note that you can have a maximum of 12 template documents.

To discard any changes you have made to the default document, you can return to the original default document supplied with Xara LX (the factory default). To do this, delete the template.xar file in your Xara LX folder. Xara LX recreates the factory default document the next time you run Xara LX.

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Related Topics

Template documents

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