Select Color Backgrounds and Choosing Layers

The buttons at the top of the Atlas tab are used to change the appearance of your 2D Atlas. When a new 2D Atlas tab is opened, the current default settings are displayed. These settings can be changed in the Preferences dialog box.

You can choose one background and up to four additional layers. Simply click a button and choose the desired background or layers.

Referring to the picture above, the pop-up menu buttons are:

  1. Background Pop-up Menu: Choose from a number of different color schemes for the Atlas background.
  2. Site Layers Pop-up Menu: Choose from a number of Biblical sites.
  3. Route Layers Pop-up Menu: Choose from a number of routes.
  4. Region Layers Pop-up Menu: Choose from a number of geographical locations on the Atlas.
  5. User Layers Pop-up Menu: Choose from layers you defined, or one of the examples installed with the Atlas.

For each pop-up menu (except backgrounds) you can:

Note

If a Atlas tab is activeClosed The application, window, tab, or other screen element which is currently being used; sometimes called the "front" or "frontmost" screen element, press +L to reopen the last used Define dialog box.

For more details on these items, refer to the topic Using Layers to Customize 2D Atlas.