Global Options for the Front End

In the standard notebook front end, the Wolfram System allows you to set a large number of global options. The values of all these options are by default saved in a "preferences file", and are automatically reused when you run the Wolfram System again. These options include all the settings which can be made using the Preferences dialog.

Some typical categories of global options for the front end.

You can access global front end options from the kernel by using (RefLink[Options, paclet:ref/Options])[(RefLink[$FrontEnd, paclet:ref/$FrontEnd]),name]. But more often, you will want to access these options interactively using the Option Inspector in the front end.