Is there any quick way to save every setting in a project as defaults, all at once? Sometimes I make changes to appearance and then cannot remember which ones I made.
In every “options” dialog, you have a Save As Default button.
This will save all options included in that dialog.
For a more comprehensive, document-wide, saving, use File > Save As Project Template
Thanks @MicheleGalvagno . I know that there’s a “save as default” in Engraving Options, for example (and I think this saves everything in Engraving options, not just the currently selected set of choices on the left), but I don’t see anything similar for things like fonts, music symbols, playing techniques, etc. I only see the little star, which has to be chosen on every individual item. Am I missing it somewhere?
To add to this, I use Dorico on two computers and I would like for the defaults to be exactly the same on both. That’s a lot of stars to select.
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Stars are the right way for Fonts et sim.
I don’t think there is an easy way to sync these files—which are deep in the User Library, which by definition should be unique to each user—but there may be hacky way such as synchronising specific files by copying one to a Cloud server and then downloading it on the other computer.
The only issue would be that you still need to have a master computer otherwise you will overwrite things back and forth, and you want to avoid that.
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@jjm_335 maybe you can also use the powerful functionalities of the Library Manager and you can set a project with all your desired settings and then import them (ore some of them) via Library Manager to the other projects.
(In this way you can have different “master” projects for specific usages and with specific options, from where you can then import the desired settings in new projects…, so that you have quasi many “default”-settings-projects from where you can pick what you need)
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@Christian_R Thanks, and I have done this. I guess I figured it might just be more efficient in the long run to be able to have the settings preset no matter what type of new document I might want to create.
I hope you are still on this forum - my head is aching about Save As Default. I’ve observed that it saves all options in the dialog (like you said), not just the ones you selected. But to my knowledge, options that you save as default go to your user library and are global across projects. That means whenever you Save As Default, it will save all options (e.g. Layout Options) for the project you happen to be working on at the moment, and you don’t even know what they are unless you look at them all! Now any new projects will use those options and maybe you just wanted to change one default. Does it really work this way or am I waaaay off?
I believe it works across the board.
Personally, I have reasonable defaults for new projects and then I create a copy of a project that has specific settings as a starting point for everything else.
I tried the Save As Template in the past, but then I still change too many things from project to project, so I no longer do that now.
This is only my workflow, neither the suggested one, nor the best for everyone by all means.
Thanks! Yes, most projects will probably start from a project template or another project, so I suppose then defaults really only apply to new projects from scratch. If I want my defaults to be truly universal, then I might consider creating a “factory settings only” project, modify its settings over time, and Save as Default only from that project.
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