# Settings: General

Options in the Marked Settings, General pane:

Settings: General

### Window

Keep new windows on top
  Automatically set new windows to “float” above other applications.

Raise window on update
  When a change is detected in a watched file, the preview window for that document will rise above other windows on your Desktop without activating Marked

Quit after closing last window
  When enabled, If all windows are closed Marked will exit

Translucent in background
  Fade the window when it’s not focused. Use the slider to set the opacity.

Disable memory-intensive features on large documents
  Disable some processor-intensive features such as collapsible headlines when documents are over 100k

Open documents in tabs
  If this is selected, Marked will operate in a “single window” mode, opening new documents in tabs instead of windows. You can navigate between tabs with `⇧`+`⌘`+`{`/`]`, and switch to tabs with the Quick Open panel.

Bring updated document to front
  When a preview window or tab is updated (the document it represents is edited), bring it to the front. If the document is a window, it will be ordered to the foreground and focused, if it’s a tab, its window will be ordered to the front and its tab will be selected.

### Status bar

Show style picker
  Shows the style picker in the bottom bar of the preview window.

Show word count
  Show word count (and statistics button) in the bottom bar of the preview window.

Word count excludes
  Word count calculations can be set to ignore any combination of footnotes and citations, block quotes, code blocks, and image captions

### Shortcuts

Click the shortcut field to record a hotkey combination that triggers an event:

Activate Marked
  Switch to Marked when this hotkey is pressed in any application

Raise first window
  Raise the frontmost (last active) Marked preview window to the foreground without leaving the current application

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