# Preferences dialog

The preferences dialog can be accessed from the main window menu, as Edit->Preferences. It lets you customize many aspects of the way HomeBank works. The following sections detail the settings that you can customize, and what they affect.

Go to: General, Interface, Columns, Display format, Import options, Euro options, Report options

## :: General tab

### Folders

Wallet | default folder to load/save homebank files
Import | default folder to load files to import
Export | default folder to save files to export

### Initial date filter

Range | default range initial value to be used everywhere in Homebank

### Start behaviour

Load last opened file | load the last opened file when HomeBank start

## :: Interface tab

### General

Toolbar | toolbar style to be used

### Amount colors

Expense | color used for expense
Income | color used for incomes
Warning | color used for amount in warning (overdrawn)

## :: Columns tab

### Transaction list

Here you can show/hide columns to be displayed in transaction list.

## :: Display format tab

### Date options

Date format | display format used for date
| A date sample is displayed

### Numbers options

Prefix symbol | Symbol that prefix the amount
Suffix symbol | Symbol that suffix the amount
Decimal char | Character to be used as decimal separator
Grouping char | Character to be used as grouping separator
Frac digits | Number of digits after decimal separator
| An amount sample is displayed

### Measurement units

Use Imperial units | Display carcost result with imperial units (no converison, just label).

## :: Import options tab

### OFX/QFX options

Import memo field | define what to do for memo field during import: ignore, add to description, add to info.

## :: Euro options tab

### General

Enable | enable euro minor currency support in HomeBank. see minor currency for more details.
Fill from | preselect of parameters for this tab
Country | remind of the filled country from
Value | change rate, value of 1 euro in your old country currency

### Numbers format

Frac digits | number of digits for decimal numbers
Thousand separator | separate thousands with a separator
Symbol | old symbol of your country currency

## :: Report options tab

### Statistics options

Show by amount | set the by amount toggle on the statistics window to default be checked
Show details | set the detail toggle on the statistics window to default be checked

### Budget options

Show details | set the detail toggle on the budget window to default be checked