How to edit application configuration settings? App.config best way to go?

Question

For my project I have settings that I added through the Settings in the project properties.

I quickly discovered that editing the app.config file directly seems to

Answer 1

This is silly ... and I think I am going to have to apologize for wasting everyone's time! But it looks like I just need to set the scope to User instead of Application and I can the write the new value.