Modo's preferences define the default behavior for a variety of options and functions, further customizing the application to suit your particular tastes, needs, and workflow requirements, while file commands provide all the standard controls necessary for opening, closing and otherwise managing files to and from disk. The first part of this chapter covers Modo's preferences, while the subsequent topics cover the file commands, project directories, importing and exporting and image formats used in Modo. To navigate to a particular topic, click its title below.