Hi,
The default options in the display tab of the configuration are for new listings. For existing ones, you will find the same options in the hikashop options of your menus/modules via the menu Display->Content menus/modules.
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That indeed gives good advice on the options and indeed, there were some issues with that option in previous versions of HikaShop so I encourage you to use the latest version if you want to use it.