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We're now in the last tab in the Options Dialog Box. It is the Profiles Tab. Now, with the advent of workspaces and the Ribbon, Profiles tend to get used less now but you'll notice we have an initial setup profile. When you first install AutoCAD 2010, you get offered the option of setting up an initial setup profile that is industry specific; things like architectural, mechanical and so on and there's your initial setup profile there. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to set up a new profile so I'm going to click on Add to List and I'm going to call the profile My Current Settings. This is like my backup profile so that I can always default back to it. So what I'll do is I'll set that up like that and click Apply and Close like so. So there's My Current Setting Profile there. Now what we're going to do is we're going to repeat that previous step and add another profile called My Custom Settings. So what we do there, we Add to List again and we go My Custom Settings like so. Now, you can give it a description of you wish. In this particular case it's an example so I don't really need to. So again, what I do is I Apply and Close that. Now, the list of available profiles there is now obviously becoming extensive and I've got lots of different settings so what we're going to do is we're going to select My Custom Settings Profile there and what we're going to do is we're going to set that as the current profile. So I click on Set Current there and that then becomes my current profile. So what I'm going to do now is make some changes there so what I can do, I can go to the Files Tab here, make changes to the file paths for example. But the one I am going to do is I am going to go to Display and Colors and all I'm going to do is change the background color here and I'm going to change it to a really obnoxious color, magenta and I'm going to Apply and Close that and there's my new background color. And I'm going to OK that now. So there's my new background color, which is pretty wild, isn't it? And you got to admit, that kind of stands out. So what we'll do there, if I right click now and go back to Options, go back to Profiles and say that I want My Current Settings back and set that as current, you'll see that it goes back to the white background. If I go to My Custom Settings and Set Current, I've got my magenta background. I've only used the background there because it's such an obvious change when you flick between the profiles there. You can obviously change many different things such as aperture size, the color of your grips and so on. What I could do there now, let's just OK that for the moment, what I might do there in my Options Dialog Box, I might right click there, go to Options now and go to Selection and there is my grip color. Let's change that to yellow and I'll apply that and I'll OK it and when I click on an object now, look. I've got yellow grips. They obviously stand out nicely on the magenta there, which is great. I'll just hit Escape to deselect there. But if I right click now and go to Options again, go back to Profiles and go to Current Settings and set it back to the Current there, those colors are back and if I click on the hard-standing outline there, they're still yellow though, you'll notice. That's because the grips don't apply to profiles. I need to go back in here like this and back to options. I've got an object selected there so I won't get the Options, make sure everything is deselected, we go back to Options there and you'll notice if I go here now, to Selection, they're still yellow. OK? So let's put those back to blue, apply it and OK it. So My Current Settings now, everything is back to the way it should be. So you can see there the differences that you can make with Profiles in your Options Dialog Box. I've got various profiles there, My Custom Settings for example. If I set that as Current again I've got that lovely magenta background. So you can see there how you can work with different profiles such as a 2D profile, a 3D profile, a plotting profile and so on. Now, you have got your workspaces as well there. Now, your workspaces allow you to edit things as well but in a slightly different way. We'll look at workspaces later on in the course.