Customized Default Options

You can overwrite the Default Options values by loading a set of options, from a specific XML structure, stored in one of the following file types:

options file - containing all application options.
To create an options file, follow these steps:
- set the values you want to impose as defaults in the Preferences pages;
- select Window > Preferences > Oxygen > Export Global Options.
project file (.xpr file extension) - containing only the options different from the Default Options.
To create a project file (.xpr file extension), follow these steps:
- set the values of the default options in the Preferences dialog so that they are saved in the project file.

There are two ways of telling the application to use such an options configuration file to extract the customized default options:

set the file path of the options configuration file as value of com.oxygenxml.default.options Java virtual machine parameter.
The file must be specified with an URL or a file path relative to the application installation folder. For example, add the following line in the [Eclipse-platform-install-folder]/configuration/config.ini file:
```
com.oxygenxml.default.options=@config.dir/../default-options.xml 
```
copy the options configuration file in the [Eclipse-platform-install-folder]/plugins/com.oxygenxml.editor/preferences folder.

Note: Make sure that the options configuration file has an .xml or an .xpr extension, like default-options.xml.