# Document Properties

A document has certain characteristics in the way its stored on your hard-disk. These subjects control some of those aspects.

Newline format

Encoding

Note: both the default Newline format and the encoding of new files can be set, see New document settings for more details.

The current properties of a document, like its character count, selection statistics and such, are available through the View -> Summary. Because this information is readily available from the status bar, a detailed description of the displayed properties will be found there.