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You can customize the way that SquirrelMail looks and responds to you
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by setting different options in this section.
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One of the great things about SquirrelMail is the degree to which it may be customized.
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Depending on the configuration, you may have several choices of themes, languages,
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folders, and other preferences. All of these may be changed without affecting any other
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users on the system. There are at least five main parts to the Options:
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Personal, Display, Message Highlighting, Folders and Index Order.
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More parts may be available depending on your SquirrelMail installation.
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You should put your entire name here. For example, "John Doe". This is what is
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shown to people that you send the message to. They will see that it is from
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"John Doe". If you don't fill this in, they will see it is from your email address,
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<b>E-Mail Address</b><br>
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<i>Optional</i> - If your email address is different than what is automatically
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assigned, you can change it here.
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<i>Optional</i> - This is the email address that people will reply to when they
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reply to your message. If this is different than the email address you are sending
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from, you can enter it here. This is useful if you want people to reply to your
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Yahoo account rather than your office address.
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<b>Multiple Identities</b><BR>
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Click this link to edit multiple identities. This is useful if you want to
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choose between different From-lines for different messages (for example
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containing your work or your home emailaddress. On the page that appears,
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you can add as many identities as you like. You will be offered a choice
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of these when composing a message.<br><br>
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<b>Reply Citation</b><BR>
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If you press Reply on a message, you will be presented with the Compose
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form with the original message quoted. Before this quoted message, a text
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like <TT>John Doe wrote:</TT> might be prepended (if the message you're replying
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to originated from John Doe). This is called the citation line. Here you
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can choose how this line looks.<BR>
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<LI><B>No Citation</B><br>
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Prepends no citation line whatsoever.<br><br>
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<LI><B>Author Said</B><br>
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This produces the line: <TT>John Doe Said:</TT> where John Doe will be replaced
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by whoever the message you're replying to was from.<br><br>
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<LI><B>Quote Who XML</B><br>
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This produces the line: <TT><quote who="John Doe"></TT>.<br><br>
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<LI><B>User-Defined</B><br>
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Enables you to define your own citation line. In the two text boxes below, you
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can type in the citation start and end. Between these the author name will be
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<i>Optional</i> - Signatures are attached at the bottom of all messages you send
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out. If you want a signature, you must make sure that the checkbox beside
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"use a signature" is checked, and then fill in what you want your signature to be
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SquirrelMail offers different color themes for your viewing pleasure. You can
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choose between the many listed there if you so desire.
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<b>Custom Stylesheet</b><br>
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Changing a theme only changes the colors, a stylesheet may change more, for
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example the font size used by SquirrelMail.
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If English isn't your native tongue, you can easily change the language that
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most things display in. If your desired language is in the list, you can choose
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it and all future SquirrelMail related messages will be in that language. Note
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that this doesn't translate incoming email messages or folder names.
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<b>Use Javascript</b><br>
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One of our main goals in creating SquirrelMail was to have no Javascript in
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any of our pages. However, some of our developers made a very good address
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book searching utility that uses Javascript. Some other Javascript functions
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were added aswell. Rather than remove it, we now
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give you the option of using
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pure HTML or allow Javascript aswell. If
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you don't know what this means, you are safest to choose Autodetect.
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<b>Number of Messages to Index</b><br>
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This is the number of messages to show at a time in a folder. If there are
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more than this number in the folder, you will see a "Previous" and "Next" link
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above and below the listing which will take you to the previous or next
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<b>Enable Page Selector</b><br>
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Setting this to Yes shows page numbers above and below the message list to
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quickly jump to a specific page of messages. The number <B>Maximum pages to show</B>
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can limit how many page numbers will be displayed above and below the
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message list.<br><br>
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<b>Wrap incoming text at</b><br>
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How many characters should we allow before wrapping the text. This prevents
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messages from scrolling way off the screen. 86 is usually a safe thing to
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put in here, but you are free to change it to whatever you desire.
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<b>Size of editor window</b><br>
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How wide do you want your "Compose" box to be? This is the number of characters
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per line that you will be able to type before wrapping in the Compose section.
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<b>Location of Buttons when Composing</b><br>
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Where are the buttons Addresses, Save Draft and Send located?<br><br>
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<b>Addressbook Display Format</B><br>
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Choose how you want the addressbook to be displayed. If you want maximum
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compatibility with all browsers, use HTML. Select Javascript if you
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know your browser supports it, it will display a nicer addressbook.
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<b>Show HTML Version by Default</b><br>
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If a message you receive is in both text and HTML format, you can choose
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if you want to see the HTML version (Yes) or the text version (No) by
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<b>Include Me in CC when I Reply All</b><br>
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Reply All sends your reply to all recepients of the original message,
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including yourself. To leave your own email address out, set this to No.
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<b>Enable Mailer Display</b><BR>
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When viewing a message, this displays which email program the sender used.
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<b>Display Attached Images with Message</b><br>
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If someone sends you a message with one or more images attached and you've
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set this to Yes, the images will be displayed right away when you view
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<b>Enable Subtle Printer Friendly Link</b><br>
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This determines the way the Printable Version-link will be displayed.
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<b>Enable Printer Friendly Clean Display</b><br>
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This will clean out the message so the print looks nicer.
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<b>Other Options</b><br>
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Depending on the configuration of your SquirrelMail installation, some more
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options might be displayed here. They hopefully should be self-explanatory.
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The idea for this came because if you are subscribed to many mailing lists,
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it is very hard to distinguish which messages came from where while reading
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through the list of messages. With Message Highlighting, you can have the
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background color of all messages from one mailing list different than the
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color of another list.<br><br>
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Just click on [New] to create a new one, or [Edit] to edit an existing one
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and the options will appear below.<br><br>
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<b>Identifying Name</b><br>
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This is simply the name that you see which describes what it is. For
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example, if you are highlighting messages from your mother, you might
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set this to "From Mom".
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This is the actual color that the background will be. You can choose between
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a number of pre-defined colors that we have selected for you, or you can enter
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the HEX code for the color that you desire (i.e. a6b492). If you choose to
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enter your own color, you must also select the radio button in front so that it is
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Here you can choose the matching phrase. From the drop-down box, you can
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choose which header field to match against (to, from, subject...) and in the
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text box, you can enter the phrase to match (mom@yahoo.com).
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<b>Folder Path</b><br>
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On some systems this will not be displayed. If you don't see this option, just
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ignore this. On other systems, this is quite a necessary feature. Usually the
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option that is in there is what should be there. This is the folder in your
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home directory that holds all your email folders. If you don't understand this,
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just leave it what it is.
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<b>Trash Folder</b><br>
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You can choose which folder messages will be sent to when you delete them. If
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you don't want deleted messages to go to the trash, set this to "Don't use Trash".
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<b>Sent Folder</b><br>
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You can choose which folder your sent messages will go to. If you don't want
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these, just set it to "Don't use Sent".
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<b>Draft Folder</b><br>
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You can choose which folder the messages you save as draft will go to.
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If you don't want to use this, just set it to "Don't use Drafts".
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<b>Location of folder list</b><br>
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Determines wether you want the list of folders on the left or right of your
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<b>Width of folder list</b><br>
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With this option, you can select how wide the list of folders will be.
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If you have very long folder names or large fonts, it is good to set this
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pretty high. Otherwise, you should set it low so you don't waste screen space.
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<b>Auto refresh folder list</b><br>
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SquirrelMail has the functionality to automatically refresh the folder listing
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on the left side of your browser window. This will also update the number of
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unseen messages that are in each folder. This is a good way to check for unseen
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messages in the INBOX without having to click on it every time.
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<b>Enable Unread Message Notification</b><br>
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This option specifies how to display unseen messages in the folder listing on the
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right side of your browser window. If you set this to No Notification, you will
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not be notified of unseen messages. If you set it to INBOX, when you have new
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messages, the INBOX will become bold and a number will appear to the right of it
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to say how many new messages are in it. If you set it to All Folders, this
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behavior will happen on all folders. If you notice that loading the folder list
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is really slow, you can set this to INBOX or None and that should speed it up.
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<b>Unseen message notification type</b><br>
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When new messages are in a folder, this option tells
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either to only display the number of new messages or also display the
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total number of messages in that folder.
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<b>Enable Collapsable Folders</b><br>
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Collapsable Folders allow you to 'fold' or collapse a folder which contains
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subfolders so the subfolders will not be displayed. You can collapse a
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folder by clicking the "-" next to it and expand it again with the "+" sign.
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Setting this to No disables collapsing.
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<b>Show Clock on Folders Panel</b><br>
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Choose if you want a clock to be displayed above the folder list and how
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it should look (Y=year, D=day, H=hour, M=minute, S=second). The option
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<B>Hour Format</B> below gives you the choice of a 12- or 24-hour clock.
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<b>Memory Search</b><br>
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If you search a mailbox, the search will be saved for quick access later.
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This defines how many mailbox searches will be saved.
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This section gives you control over the message list. You can choose how
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much information you want in the message list and in what order it should
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Use the Up and Down links to move columns around, Del to remove a column
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from the display and Add to add one.