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Adding and viewing data
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• Current Time to insert the current time in a time, number, or text field. (You can also
choose Current Time to insert the current date and time in a timestamp field.)
• Current User Name to insert the current user name as specified in preferences. (To
change the user name value, see
Setting general preferences.)
Notes
• If a field formatted to display a drop-down calendar is empty or contains an invalid date, the
calendar will default to the current date when opened. Press Enter (Windows), Return
(OS
X), or click to insert the current date. If the field already contains a valid date, find and
click the current date in the drop-down calendar to replace the existing data with the current
date.
• FileMaker Pro determines the current date and time to insert from your operating system
settings.
• FileMaker can automatically enter values such as dates and times into fields when a record
is created or updated. For more information, see
Defining automatic data entry. If you need
to track who creates or updates records in a file protected with accounts, a more secure and
accurate method is to automatically enter the account name, because any user can easily
change the user name in preferences.
• To create custom formats for date fields, see Specifying formats for date fields.
Editing and formatting text
You can enter, edit, format and check the spelling of text in Browse mode and Layout mode. In Find
mode, you can enter and edit text in find requests.
Related topics
Checking spelling
Selecting text
You must select text before you can edit it.
To select text:
• In Browse mode or Find mode, position the pointer over any selectable text.
• In Layout mode, use the Selection tool in the status toolbar to manipulate a block of
text as if it were an object. For example, copy or move it, change fonts, or resize it (which
changes the margins of the text). When a text block is selected with the Selection tool,
typing replaces the text in the text block.
• In Layout mode, use the Text tool to edit text. You can also double-click a text block with
the Selection tool to edit the text.