On the View tab in the dialog box of the ribbon command File | Properties 
, you can make settings for the appearance of the document on the screen.
Display field names
This option determines whether fields (date, page number, etc.) should display the result or field name within curly braces. Normally, you want to see the result. You should thus leave this option disabled. For more information, see also Fields.
This option is disabled by default.
Show bookmarks
You can use the ribbon command Insert | Bookmark 
to add "bookmarks" to a document. For more information, see Bookmarks.
These bookmarks are usually invisible. If you enable Show bookmarks, however, they are displayed in the text (enclosed within angle brackets).
This option is disabled by default.
Shade fields
If you enable this option, all fields (date, page number, etc.) inserted into the document with the ribbon command Insert | group Text | Field 
will be grayed out so that you can see more clearly where fields are located in the document.
This option is disabled by default.
Show merge record
This option is only available if you have assigned a database to the current document with the ribbon command Mailings | Select database | Use existing database.
If you enable this option, all database fields in the document display the field contents from the database rather than the field name. To the right of this option, you can enter the record number of the record to be displayed. If you enter "10", for example, the tenth record will be displayed.
This option is useful for checking the final appearance of a mail merge before printing it. For more information, see also Mail merge.
This option is disabled by default.
As described in Hiding objects, you can make inserted objects invisible on the screen and/or on the printed page.
You can still make such objects visible again by means of these two options:
▪Show invisible objects: If you enable this option, any object whose Visible property is disabled becomes visible on the screen.
▪Print unprintable objects: If you enable this option, any object whose Printable property was disabled will also be printed again.
Both options are disabled by default.
Hidden text section
Text can also be be hidden in addition to objects. For more information, see Hiding text.
The options Show hidden text and Print hidden text respectively determine the display and printing of text that has been formatted as hidden.
By default, the option Show hidden text is enabled and the option Print hidden text is disabled. Thus, hidden text can be seen on the screen, but it does not appear on a printout.
If you enable Print hidden text, hidden text will also appear on a printout.
Pictures and OLE objects section
With the default setting Show pictures, all the pictures and OLE objects in the text are displayed on the screen.
If you select Use placeholders, however, only a gray box is displayed instead. Advantage: This speeds up the responsiveness of the display when scrolling through a document with a lot of pictures.
Locking section
These options allow you to "lock" all objects on the master page and all guides to prevent unintentional movement:
▪Lock objects on master page: If you enable this option, all objects inserted on the master page can only be moved in the master page view. For more information, see also Master pages.
▪Lock guides: If you enable this option, guides can no longer be moved with the mouse but can only be edited via the dialog box of the ribbon command Layout | Grid and guides. For more information, see also Using guides.
Both options are disabled by default.
Options section
The following settings are available here:
▪Use printer-independent formatting:
Note: This option is only available in TextMaker for Windows.
| Enabled (recommended default setting): The document is formatted in a much higher internal resolution than the resolution of the printer that is used. Advantage: Switching to a different printer does not affect the document. |
| Not enabled: The resolution of the currently selected printer is used to format the document. This may lead to changes in line breaks and even page breaks when you switch to a different printer. |
▪Print page background:
This option determines whether a page background created with the ribbon command Layout | group Section | Background  should also be displayed in printouts. This option is disabled by default; the background thus only appears on the screen. |
| Note: This option has no effect on a page background created with the ribbon command Layout | Chapter. This type of background will always be printed. |
| For more information, see also Changing the page background. |
▪Decimal separator:
| Here, you can specify the character to be used as a decimal separator. |
| This setting only affects the behavior of decimal tabs (see also Using tabs). If you change the separator from a period to a comma, for example, numbers will be aligned at commas rather than periods when you use decimal tabs. |
Here, you can make internal settings for compatibility with documents created in older versions of TextMaker, Microsoft Word or other file formats. These options are set automatically when the document is opened and should not normally be changed manually.
The Layout is compatible to section displays the file format that you have accessed in TextMaker. At the same time, you can choose from different file formats where the optimal compatibility settings are already specified.