Edit Your User Settings

If you want to make Confluence fit you, like a well-worn pair of sneakers, you can set some preferences that will make you feel more at home:

General User Preferences

To edit your general user settings:

  1. Click on your picture in the top-right hand corner (if you've never changed it, it will be a silhouette)

  2. Click on 'Profile'





  3. Choose Edit and update the settings

  4. Choose Submit




Setting

Description

Site Homepage

Select the page that you would like to see whenever you log into Confluence.

Language

Select your language. See below.

Time zone

Select your time zone.

Use Keyboard Shortcuts

Enable keyboard shortcuts, other than for the editor.

Text selectTurn off the popup options panel when highlighting text.


Screenshot: Editing your user profile settings

 

Editor Preferences

You can set some options that determine the way the Confluence editor works. Note that these settings affect only you. Other people using Confluence can enable or disable the settings on their user profiles independently.

To change your editor preferences:

  1. Choose your profile picture at top right of the screen, then choose Settings
  2. Click Editor under 'Your Settings' in the left-hand panel

  3. Click Edit and make your changes

  4. Click  Submit

Setting

Description

Disable Autocomplete

Select to disable autocompletion when you press one of the trigger characters.

Disable Autoformatting

Select to disable autoformatting when you type wiki markup in the editor. Click ? on the editor toolbar to learn more.


Screenshot: User settings for the editor



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