Toad for Oracle Unleashed

Sharing Toad Settings

One of the most common Toad user questions (after both basic connectivity and configuration) is how to get the same options or settings (and thus behavior) as a buddy whose Toad works differently (that is, better) than one’s own. Another common reason is that a team working together on a common project might like to share settings for consistency and standardization.

Beginning with Toad 12.5 the process to share all your settings is trivially easy: You simply choose Main Menu → Utilities → Copy User Settings, which launches the Copy User Settings window, as shown in Figure 2.16. In fact this screen offers three useful functionalities:

You can copy your settings from a prior install of Toad. So if you have Toad 11.6 installed ...