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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
 
| Wallet | default folder to load/save homebank files | 
| Import | default folder to load files to import | 
| Export | default folder to save files to export | 
| Range | default range initial value to be used everywhere in Homebank | 
| Load last opened file | load the last opened file when HomeBank start | 
 
| Toolbar | toolbar style to be used | 
| Expense | color used for expense | 
| Income | color used for incomes | 
| Warning | color used for amount in warning (overdrawn) | 
 
Here you can show/hide columns to be displayed in transaction list.
 
| Date format | display format used for date | 
| A date sample is displayed | 
| 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 | 
| Use Imperial units | Display vehicle cost result with imperial units (no converison, just label). | 
| Import memo field | define what to do for memo field during import: ignore, add to description, add to info. | 
 
| Enable | enable euro minor currency support in HomeBank. | 
| 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 | 
| Frac digits | number of digits for decimal numbers | 
| Thousand separator | separate thousands with a separator | 
| Symbol | old symbol of your country currency | 
 
| 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 | 
| Show details | set the detail toggle on the budget window to default be checked |