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id: live-tail-preferences
title: Live Tail Preferences
description: You can change the preferences for Live Tail line spacing, message text size, and message color.
slug: /help/docs/search/live-tail/live-tail-preferences/
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/search/live-tail/live-tail-preferences/
---

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Live Tail preferences allow you to change the appearance of line spacing, size of your message text, and your message color.

**To change Live Tail Preferences:**

1. Select the Live Tail **details** icon (on the far right) and choose **Preferences** from the dropdown list. <br/><img src={useBaseUrl('img/search/livetail/live-tail-preferences/LiveTail_Details_Preferences.png')} alt="Live Tail details preferences" style={{border: '1px solid gray'}} width="800" />
1. From **Preferences**, change the **Line Spacing**, **Message Text**, or **Message Color**.<br/><img src={useBaseUrl('img/search/livetail/live-tail-preferences/LiveTail_Preferences_Dialog1.png')} alt="Live Tail preferences dialog" style={{border: '1px solid gray'}} width="400" />
1. Optional: Toggle **Replace the following control characters** option to **ON**, to render /r and /n as new lines and /t as a tab.<br/><img src={useBaseUrl('img/search/livetail/live-tail-preferences/LiveStream_Preferences_Dialog-toggle.png')} alt="Live Stream preferences dialog toggle" style={{border: '1px solid gray'}} width="400" />
1. Click **OK** to save the settings.