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The 
]] General Options Dialog allows you to customize your global experience with Sift. The dialog can be found in the [[Sift:Application:Toolbar}} and under the File menu.
General Options Overview
There are two sections in the general options dialog.
- Selection Options: These options will customize your experience interacting with the data.
- Plotting Options: These options will customize your experience interacting with the plots.
Selection Options
Highlight all data when Refresh is selected: All data gets highlighted after the refresh button is selected. Useful when a trace is selected and the user wants to return to all data shown.
Highlight all data in group: When checked, if a trace is selected the entire group gets highlighted.
Highlight data across groups: When checked, the same trace across all groups is highlighted as well.
Show excluded data: When checked, data is still shown when excluded.
Excluded selected data for all groups: When checked, if a trace is excluded the corresponding trace across all groups is excluded.
Use short C3D file names on selection: Only short names will be show when a trace is selected.
Transparency for unselected data (0-100%): This slider allows you to choose the transparency of the unselected data with 100% being completely clear.
Plotting Options
Refresh plot on selection changes: When checked, whenever a new selection is made the active plot refreshes automatically.
Show instances where data not found : When checked, data that is not found will still appear on the plots.
Use selected workspaces when calculate group means: When checked, only the selected workspaces will be used to calculate the group means when being plotted.
Show vertical line for video and animations: When checked, vertical line will show during animations and video. Vertical line styles can be changed in Data Options.
Transparency for dispersion measures (0-100%): This slider allows you to choose the transparency of the dispersion measures with 100% being completely clear.
Graph Rows: Number of graph rows.
Graph Columns: Number of graph columns.
Plot view type: Gives you the option to view a single plot, a row of plots, or a column of plots.
Graph View Count: Number of Graphs you wish to view.