On the Files tab in the dialog box of the ribbon command File | Options 
, you can make settings for opening and saving files:
Template folder
Here, you can specify the folder in which the templates for TextMaker documents are stored.
The dialog box that appears when you choose the ribbon command File | New to let you select a document template displays all templates that are in this folder.
Note: Normally, this setting should not be changed. Change it only in the event that you have actually moved the template folder to another place.
Default file format
Here, you can select the file format in which TextMaker should save newly created documents by default.
If you create a new document with the ribbon command File | New and then save it for the first time, the Save dialog box always suggests the file format set here as default.
You can choose between the TextMaker format, the Microsoft Word format in several versions, the OpenDocument format and the RTF format.
Important: Note that the other formats offered here do not know all of TextMaker's functions. If, for example, you save a TextMaker document in Word format, certain formatting options or functions could be lost. We thus recommend that you use the default setting "TextMaker" here.
Saving section
In the Saving section, you can make settings for saving documents:
▪Prompt for summary information when saving
| If you enable this option, a dialog box will appear automatically the first time you save a new document to enable you to enter some additional information about it. For more information, see Document summary. |
▪Display warning when saving documents in text format
| If this option is enabled, saving a document in plain text format will result in a warning being displayed that all objects and formatting will be lost. |
Opening section
In the Opening section, you can make settings for opening documents:
▪Return to the last editing position when a document has been opened
| When you open a document and this option is enabled, TextMaker automatically positions the text cursor at the place where it was located the last time you saved the document. |
| Note: This works only with documents in the following file formats: TextMaker (.tmd or .tmdx) and Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx). |
▪Recently used files in File menu
If you click on the small arrow on the ribbon command File | Open  , TextMaker displays a list of the most recently opened files. If you select one of these entries, the corresponding file will be opened immediately. Here, you can specify the number of files to be displayed in the list. |
SoftMaker FreeOffice only: Backup section
SoftMaker FreeOffice does not contain a "Backup" tab and its settings, which are described in the next section. Instead, you have to choose either No backup or Simple backup in the dropdown list on the "Files" tab.
▪No backup
| If you select this option, no backups will be created when documents are saved. (This option is not recommended.) |
▪Simple backup
| This makes one backup per document. It contains the previous version of the document. It has the name extension .bak and is in the same folder as the document itself. |
In SoftMaker FreeOffice there is also the following option for the above Opening section:
▪Auto recovery: Save state every ... minutes
| When this option is enabled, TextMaker automatically makes a temporary backup copy of every open document on a periodic basis. You can enter a period of 1 to 100 minutes. |
Note: These temporary backup copies work completely independently of the Simple/No backup copies option described above.
| When you exit TextMaker in the normal manner, these temporary backup copies are automatically deleted. However, if TextMaker is abruptly shut down by a power failure, for example, while you are working on open documents, these copies become available when the program is restarted. TextMaker recognizes that there has been a failure and offers to open the automatic backup copies of all documents that had been modified but not saved just prior to the failure. |
| You can then check each of the restored documents to determine if any of the most recently made changes have actually been lost, and then save them. |