Dear Martin, Yes, it's unfortunately broken and has been for a while now. I'm not convinced of the usefulness of this option though: what do you use it for and how? Wouldn't it be enough to create a file spm_my_defaults.m with your modified options as described in the help of spm_defaults.m? Best regards, Guillaume. On 08/02/17 10:54, Martin Hochheimer wrote: > Dear SPM experts, > > I have tried several times to change the defaults in the SPM batch editor's section "edit defaults". > > Every time I try to do this, I get the following error: > > As soon as I select the option: > > > Cell contents reference from a non-cell array object. > > Error in cfg_ui_util (line 119) > [id, stop, contents] = ... > > Error in cfg_ui>local_showmod (line 329) > [id, namestr, datastr, contents] = cfg_ui_util('showmod', cmid, dflag); > > Error in cfg_ui>local_editdefs (line 248) > local_showmod(gcbo); > > Error while evaluating uimenu Callback > > > and as soon as I try to access any option within the batch defaults window: > > > Cell contents reference from a non-cell array object. > > Error in cfg_ui_util (line 119) > [id, stop, contents] = ... > > Error in cfg_ui>local_showmod (line 329) > [id, namestr, datastr, contents] = cfg_ui_util('showmod', cmid, dflag); > > Error in cfg_ui>modlist_Callback (line 898) > local_showmod(hObject); > > Error in gui_mainfcn (line 96) > feval(varargin{:}); > > Error in cfg_ui (line 53) > gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:}); > > Error in > @(hObject,eventdata)cfg_ui('modlist_Callback',hObject,eventdata,guidata(hObject)) > > > Error while evaluating uicontrol Callback > > > > Could anybody please tell me how to mend this? > > Thank you and all the best! > > Martin Hochheimer > -- Guillaume Flandin, PhD Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging University College London 12 Queen Square London WC1N 3BG