Settings

Settings opens from the Settings button (the sliders icon) in the quick controls at the end of the bottom bar, in the editor and in the Explorer. It holds the preferences that are about you rather than about any particular document, which is why there is one set of them and not one per document.

The dialog lists its categories down the left, with a Search settings field above them, and shows one category at a time on the right. Type into the search to find a setting by name or by a word it is about ("transparency" finds Panel Opacity). On a phone, the list and the category take turns: tap a category to open it, and go back for the list.

Settings lists its categories on the left and shows the open one on the right, here Editor.

Some categories hold sub-categories (Editor holds Pages and Presenting; Panels holds one per panel; Account holds Notifications and API Tokens). On a computer, click the parent (or its arrow) to show them beneath it, and again to fold them away. On a phone, tap the parent and its sub-categories are listed at the bottom of its page.

Each category groups its settings into cards, one card per section, with a short line under each setting saying what it does. A setting that only matters while another is on (a panel's own options under its switch) sits indented beneath it, and shows only while that switch is on.

Editor

Under Canvas:

Alignment Guides: snap lines while you move or resize, so elements line up with their neighbours. On by default. See Alignment Guides.
Auto-Attach Arrows: when a move leaves an arrow running through a shape it connects, its end moves to the side facing the other end. On by default. See Auto-Attach Arrows.
Element Indicators: how an element shows that it has a link, a note, an action or comments. Top (the default) puts small icons near its top, Footer puts a labelled row along its bottom edge, and Off hides them. See Element Indicators.

Under Mouse:

Quick-Add on Hover: opens an element's quick-add + menu when you hover it, instead of waiting for a click; the + buttons still only appear on the selected element. Off by default. See Quick-Add on Hover.
Middle-Mouse Pan: hold the middle mouse button and drag to pan from anywhere, whatever tool is active. On by default; turn it off to leave the middle button to your browser.

Then:

Power User Mode, under Power User: applies a set of recommended settings in one go and unlocks Minimal Chrome, which hides labels and hints while keeping every control. Switching it off puts back the settings you did not change. See Power User Mode.

Presenting

How presenting a deck behaves: Transition and its Speed, Slide Size, Auto-Advance, Click to Advance, Loop the Deck, Show Position, Keep Controls Visible, Hide the Pointer, Show Elapsed Time and Show Slide Budget.

Appearance

Theme: Light, Dark or System, which follows your device. This is the editor's own chrome, not a tab's theme, although a tab on the Default theme follows it. The same control sits in the bottom bar. Saved on this device only (see below). See Dark Mode.
Button Labels: names the buttons along the bottom (such as Search, Settings and Style) beside their icons, on a screen wide enough for them. On by default; turn it off for icons alone. A phone always shows icons alone.
UI Scale: makes the panels, the toolbar and the buttons in the bottom-right corner (zoom, undo and redo) bigger or smaller, from 80% to 120%, with 100% in the middle of the slider. The canvas, dialogs and menus stay as they are, so it is not the same as your browser's zoom. Beneath it, Panel Scale, Toolbar Scale and Corner Buttons Scale size each of those on its own (Toolbar Scale goes up to 140%); moving UI Scale again sets all three back to the same size. The chrome resizes as you drag. Desktop only: a phone always uses 100%.

Keyboard

Keyboard Shortcuts: the switch that turns the editor's keyboard shortcuts on and off. Off means all of them, chords like undo included, not just the single-letter keys. Saved on this device only (see below).
All Shortcuts: the full shortcut reference, in collapsible groups. The Keyboard Shortcuts command in search opens Settings straight on this category. See Keyboard Shortcuts.

Panels

Panel Opacity: fades every panel and the toolbar, from 30% to 100%, so the canvas shows through (buttons and the Explorer stay opaque); a panel snaps back to fully opaque while you hover or focus it. See Panel Opacity.

Panels holds four sub-categories, one per panel. Each starts with a switch that turns its panel on or off; the panel's other settings show beneath it only while it is on.

Layers: Enable Layers Panel, then Layer Thumbnails, Layer Element Counts and Preview Layer on Hover. Turning the panel off also hides the Move to layer choices in the element menu; your layers keep working as before. See Layers.
Map: Enable Map (the small overview of the whole tab in the bottom-left corner, once a tab has a few elements), Dim Outside the View, and Map Size (Short, Medium or Tall). Desktop only. See Map.
Collaborate: Enable Collaborate Panel, the list of a tab's comment threads and actions. It only appears while the tab has a comment or an action. With it off, comments and actions still work from the elements. See Comments.
Quick Style: Enable Quick Style Panel, the panel of common styles that opens beside a selected shape or arrow. With it off, every style is still in the element's right-click menu. See Quick Style Panel.

Accessibility

Reduce Motion: turns off the decorative animations and transitions (panels, popovers, the snap guides) so the interface appears instantly instead of sliding. Your device's own reduce-motion setting is always respected; this lets you force it on even where the device doesn't ask for it. See Accessibility.
UI Scale: Open Appearance takes you to UI Scale, for bigger panels, toolbar and corner buttons.

Tours

The Pages tour has one tour for each kind of page: Pages Tours switches them all at once, with Slides Tour, Infographic Tour and Article Tour beneath it. Each tour offers itself once, where it belongs, and its switch turns itself off once you have taken or dismissed it. Switch one back on and close Settings to take that tour again: it starts straight away if you are on its kind of page, or the next time you are. See The Pages Tour.

Below them, Show Me is closed until you open it, and says how many are on. Some elements, such as the Sankey Diagram, have a Show Me of their own, offered from a small Show Me toolbar beside the element the first time you select one. Show Me on Every Element switches them all; beneath it, one switch per element (such as Sankey Diagram, Timeline and Tab Window) offers that one again.

Documents

Default Folders: the folder new documents go to when you create one without choosing a place, with Change and Clear. See Default Folders.
Show Home Banner: the greeting, status pills and large search at the top of Explorer Home. Closing the banner turns it off; this brings it back.

Account

Account shows who you are (a guest, or your name and email when signed in), your Trash (deleted documents wait there for 30 days), and Delete Account. It holds two sub-categories:

Notifications

In-Editor Notifications: the brief confirmation shown when you do something whose result isn't on screen, like moving a document to a folder or linking a tab. Errors and warnings are always shown, whatever this is set to, so a failure is never silently swallowed. A notification stays put while you point at it or tab into it, and Escape closes the one you are on.
Email: once signed in, one switch per email (someone joins, comments on or mentions you in your document, assigns you an action or responds to a team invite, plus tips and check-ins and milestones). A guest sees a sign-in prompt instead. See Email Notifications.

API Tokens

Manage API Tokens opens liveworkspace.app, where you create, view and revoke the tokens your own scripts and connected AI tools use to call livedocuments as you. Below it, the workbenches paired with your tokens are listed, each with Unpair. Signed-in only, and absent on a deployment without accounts. See API Tokens.

Anywhere Settings says something needs an account, it ends with a Sign In link that brings you back to where you were.

Privacy

Send Anonymous Usage Events: the small first-party events listed on the public telemetry dashboard: no user content, no third-party trackers. Turn it off to keep everything you do on your device. See What We Collect.

Settings follow you, most of them

Settings are stored against your identity, not your browser, and apply to every document you open on every device you sign in from. For a guest, "your identity" is the guest identity liveworkspace gives this browser, so the preferences last as long as that does.

A few things deliberately stay on the device you are using:

Theme (light, dark or system) in Appearance.
The Keyboard Shortcuts switch, so you can keep shortcuts on where you have a full keyboard and off where you don't.
Panel positions: which corner each panel docks into.
Explorer view: List, Card or Details.
Tool settings: the laser's pen, the spotlight and the presenter's settings.

The canvas-behaviour toggles (auto-attach arrows, alignment guides, quick-add on hover and panel opacity) used to sit in the palette's own gear menu. They now live here, under Editor and Panels, so every setting has one home.

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