##### 3.2.1.1 Drilling down to find a section or setting

The process goes like this:

1. Select a project (thus identifying the project configuration file), or designate another configuration file; all other files or templates referenced from that initial file via [Templates] settings can be included in the current Configuration Manager session.
2. Decide what kinds of settings you want to work with: general configuration settings, formats, language settings, macros, or content models
3. Pick what you want to do: add, change, delete, restore, copy, move, or merge a setting or a whole section.
4. Pick the section (and possibly setting) to work on. At this point you can see where the item occurs in all the configuration files included in the current session; and you see the scope of effect of each value.
5. Pick the file where you want the change to take place.
6. Apply your selections to make the change.

For example, suppose you wish to change the bullet style for unordered-list elements that are mapped to the Bulleted2 output format, for the document involved in your current project, and for any related conversion projects that work on this document. You would follow these steps:

1. Start the Configuration Manager and select your project.
2. Because Bulleted2 is an paragraph format for an unordered-list item, choose configuration category Unordered (under List Formats, under Paragraph Formats, under Text Formats).
3. Choose the action to perform: Edit one setting in section.
4. Choose the section where the setting occurs: Bulleted2.
5. Choose list style from the list of settings that are present in some or all definitions of Bulleted2 that can affect your project.
6. Choose, from a list of the format configuration files accessed by your project, the file that is specific to the document for this project.
7. Choose a different value for list style.
8. Click Finish action, and you are done.

Previous Topic: 3.2.1 Understanding how to use the Configuration Manager

Next Topic: 3.2.1.2 Heeding status and result messages

Parent Topic: 3.2.1 Understanding how to use the Configuration Manager

Sibling Topics:

3.2.1.2 Heeding status and result messages

3.2.1.3 Getting help with controls and configuration data

3.2.1.4 Providing help for your own format and macro definitions

3.2.1.5 Correcting configuration errors

Table of Contents • Index