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Chapter 7 Creating and Plotting Sheets Using Sheet Manager
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Setting the Numeric Format for a Text Label
This is a continuation of Creating a Text Label in this chapter. This section
describes how the numbers in the labels appear.
To control the way that the codes, such as stationing or elevations, are
formatted
1 In the Edit Text Format dialog box, click the Numeric Format button to display
the Edit Numeric Format dialog box.
The Preview section at the top of this dialog box reflects the changes you make
to the numeric format. You can change the preview value by typing a new value
in the Preview Value edit box.
2 Under Numeric Format Options, you can choose from the following options to
control the way the numbers are displayed:
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Minimum display width: Use this edit box to specify the total number of
characters that will be displayed when the Show leading zeros option is
selected.
For example, if you enter a value of 6 in the Minimum display width edit
box, and set the decimal precision at 2, and enter a value of 50.02 in the
Preview Value, then the value 050.02 shows in the preview.
This option includes the decimal point in the total number of characters:
050.02 has a width of 6. If the width you specified is less than the width of
the number, then the number still displays in total, it just wont have any
leading zeros. For example, if you specify a width of 2 but the number is
50.02, then the number would display in the preview.
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Show leading zeros: Select this check box to display leading zeros in front of
the number. Clear this check box if you do not want leading zeros to be
displayed.
This setting works along with the Minimum display width setting. For
example, a value of 50.02 would be displayed as 050.02 if Show leading zeros