Using JMP - SAS

366 JMP Preferences Appendix A
General
Table A.1 Preferences on the General Page
Preference
Show Tip of the Day at
startup
Initial Splash Window
Initial JMP Starter
Window
Initial JMP Window
Reopen the initial JMP
window on last window
close
Select Individual Excel
Worksheets
Show menu tips
Open Text File Charset
Save Text Files as
Unicode
Description
Select this option to show the Tip of the Day window at start-up. This
option is selected by default.
Clear this option to prevent the Tip of the Day window from appearing at
start-up.
Select this option to show the initial splash window at start-up. This option
is selected by default.
Clear this option to prevent the initial splash window from appearing at
start-up.
(Macintosh only) Select this option to show the JMP Starter window every
time you start JMP. This option is on by default.
(Windows only) Select one of the listed windows as the default window.
When JMP starts this window appears.
(Windows only) Select this option to open whichever window you have set
as the Initial JMP Window when you close the last JMP window. If this
option is turned off, closing the last JMP window also quits JMP.
This option is on by default.
Select this option to always be prompted to select specific worksheets when
you open a Microsoft Excel workbook. This option is not selected by
default.
Note that when you open an Excel file on Macintosh, an option to select
worksheets is always available.
Under Vista and subsequent Windows operating systems, the interactive
method to select individual worksheets is on the Open button menu.
Select this option to see tooltips on main menu options and options in red
triangle menus. This option is selected by default.
Select one of the options from the menu to determine what character
encoding JMP uses to open files. Best Guess is the default.
JMP uses the Unicode character set, which supports special characters such
as é and ½. It saves files without special Unicode characters as plain text
automatically. This option is selected by default.
Clear this check box to save all your files as plain text.
Note that versions of JMP earlier than 5.1.2 cannot read Unicode files.