Second piece of good news: You can save settings to reuse. You can enter a custom setting and then save and name it how you like. Something like “5/32 purebond plywood” would do the trick, just remember that it’ll be alphabetized once you save it. Numbers come first, so it’d be at the top of the list.
As for working with manual settings, also good news, there’s a support page for that!
I think this should get you going.
In terms of how to know which manual settings to use, that’s a bit of an experience thing. The problem is that plywood can vary, and getting a sense of what settings to use is a bit of trial and error and “feel”. However, even with that in mind, this is sort of a good news thing too, there’s a really easy way to test settings on new materials – check out #6 here:
All of this is a lot of info. As you try all of it out let us know if you have any specific questions, I’m sure we can help you get it sorted.