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<title>Preferences</title>
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<p><strong>Preferences</strong></p>
+<p>The preferences panel is opened from the Jalview Desktop’s <strong><em>Tools</em></strong> menu.</p>
<p>There are six tabs in the Preferences dialog box:
<ul>
<li>The <a href="#visual"><strong>"Visual"</strong>
<p><em>Open file</em> - If this is selected then the default
alignment file will be opened when Jalview is started. You can change
the default file by clicking on file name and either typing in the file
-path or selecting it from the file chooser window.</p>
+path or selecting it from the file chooser window.<br/><em>Note: The default example alignment is updated periodically to demonstrate new features in Jalview.</em></p>
<p><a name="colours"><strong>"Colours" Preferences tab</strong></p>
<p><em>Alignment Colour</em> - The default colour scheme for a new alignment
window. If the chosen option is "User Defined" then the last
make an EPS file.</li>
</ul>
</p>
+<p><em>Automatically set ID width</em><br>
+When enabled, the column containing sequence and annotation labels at the left hand side of an exported figure will be made large enough to display each sequence ID and annotation label in its own line. Enable this if you have particularly long sequence IDs and need to generate EPS or PNG figures or web pages.</p>
+<p><em>Figure ID column width</em><br>
+Manually specify the width of the left hand column where sequence IDs and annotation labels will be rendered in exported alignment figures. This setting will be ignored if <em>"Automatically set ID width"</em> is set.
+</p>
<p><em>Sequence//Start-End Numbering</em><br>
The output tab also has a group of checkboxes for each file format. If
these are ticked, then Jalview will write files with the start and end
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