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Editing objects, layout parts, and the layout background
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In Preview mode, you can also click Print Setup (Windows) or Page Setup (OS X) in the status
toolbar.
• When you select text in a rotated field in Browse mode or in a rotated text object in Layout
mode, the text temporarily displays unrotated while you’re editing the text.
• If necessary, you can also rotate graphics to match vertical text. For more information, see
Rotating objects.
• Instead of re-entering data, you can use functions to convert alphabetic and numeric half-
width characters to full-width characters or Chinese numbers. To convert the characters
using a function, define a new calculation field that contains the appropriate function and
place it on the layout. The following functions are available. For more information, see
Text
functions.
You can also display full-width characters for number, date and time fields by changing their field
format. For more information, see:
• Specifying formats for fields containing numbers
• Specifying formats for date fields
• Specifying formats for time fields
Arranging objects
In Layout mode, you can:
• group any combination of objects so you can edit or move them together
• change the stacking order of objects to get different effects when the objects overlap
• rotate an object or group of objects in 90-degree increments
• align or distribute objects precisely
• resize objects so they are all the same width (or height) in one step
Related topics
Using tools to precisely position objects
Grouping and ungrouping objects
Group multiple objects so you can work on the grouped object as if it were a single object. You can:
• copy and paste grouped objects, maintaining the arrangement of the objects within the
group
• more easily work with stacking order, because grouped objects all exist on the same layer
• align an individual object to a grouped object
Field
Type
Function Conversion type
Tex t RomanZenkaku half-width numbers or alphabetic characters to full-width
Tex t KanaZenkaku half-width Katakana to full-width
Tex t KanjiNumeral half-width numbers to Chinese numbers
Numeric NumToJText half-width numbers to full-width