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Editing objects, layout parts, and the layout background
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created in Australia, the database may have different system formats than those currently
on your computer. See
Opening files with different system formats.
• Number and date format settings are applied after conditional formatting settings and are
therefore preserved, even if data meets your conditional formatting criteria. However,
sometimes number, date, and conditional format settings are combined. For example, if you
set negative numbers to display in red in the Data Formatting area of the
Inspector and also
set conditional formatting on the same field to display negative numbers in blue with the fill
color yellow, the result will be a red number in a yellow field. System formats have no affect
on conditional formatting settings.
Related topics
Adding tooltips on layouts
Specifying text formats for fields
In Layout mode, you can specify a set of text attributes for each field object. All the characters in a
given field object (including all of its repetitions if it refers to a repeating field) share the same font,
size, style, color, line spacing, tab, and paragraph settings. But no attributes are shared between
different field objects. For example, you can insert more than one field object that displays data from
the same field, and each field object can have different text attributes.
Note You can also format characters in text fields in Browse mode (for example, italicize or
underline a word for emphasis). Unlike text formatting specified in Layout mode, this formatting is
stored with the data, and you see it in any layout that displays that field. For more information, see
Formatting text.
To specify text formats for fields:
1. In Layout mode, select one or more fields. Or, to set text formats for fields you place later,
start with no fields selected.
For more information, see Selecting objects.
2. Click Inspector in the layout bar, then click Appearance.
3. Select text options that you want.
Use the Text area to format the style, size, font, or color of the text or make text highlighted,
bold, italic, or underlined. Use the Paragraph area to set paragraph alignment, indenting, and
line spacing for fields. For more information, see
Specifying paragraph attributes and tab
settings.
4. Press Enter or Tab, or click outside the Inspector to apply the changes.
Notes
• You can also format text (not in a field) on a layout. For more information, see Making text
bold, italic, highlighted, or setting other styles.
• Use the formatting bar (click Formatting in the layout bar, or choose View menu >
Formatting Bar) or the shortcut menu for quick access to many text attributes. For more
information, see
Using the status toolbar and Using shortcut menus.