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1. Drag a new field to a layout. Before deselecting that field, choose
Text, Number, Date, Time, or Graphic from the Format menu.
2. In the Format dialog box, select options, and then click OK.
See the following sections for information on data formatting options
for each field type.
You can also set display formats for individually selected fields, which
replace the current default settings. See the following sections.
Formatting text attributes in individual fields
You can format the text attributes (such as the font, size, and style) for
data in all field types that contain characters. All the characters in one
field (including all repetitions of repeating fields) share the text
attributes. You can also format text objects in the layout.
1. In Layout mode, select a field or text object, and then choose Text
from the Format menu.
To format more than one field at a time, Shift-click each field to
format, and then choose Text from the Format menu.
2. In the Text Format dialog box, select options, and then click OK.
Keep these points in mind:
1 You can hold down Alt as you double-click a field to display the
format dialog box for that field type.
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the Help menu, and then type:
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