# Setting your Aptana preferences [edit]

This page describes how to access the Preferences window in Aptana.

## Introduction

You can modify the appearance of your development environment by changing your preferences in Aptana. Among the many options that you can change are things like the color of syntax highlighting and whether to display or hide the line numbers for your code.

## Instructions

To display the Preferences window:

1. From the Window menu, select Preferences...
2. On the Preferences tree on the left, expand Aptana to access the set of Aptana-specific preferences.
3. On the Preferences window, you can change any of the settings to change the appearance of your Aptana environment.
4. When you are finished making changes to your Preferences, click OK.

## Related Topics

- Displaying or hiding line numbers
- Viewing code changes with Quick Diff
- Setting up your web browser configuration
- Setting Local History preferences
- Modifying your shortcut keys
- Changing the Editor font
- Changing your file association preferences
- Setting your HTML preview preferences
- Adding custom error message filters to the Validation View
- Setting your View Source preferences
- Customizing your colorization preferences
- Customizing your formatting preferences
- Customizing your typing preferences
- Exporting and importing preferences
- Exporting and importing colorization preferences

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