Quick Start

Customizing what you see 51
3. In the Specify Field dialog box, select the City field.
4. Click OK.
5. Choose View menu > Browse Mode to see your field.
You see a city entered in each record. City data was entered
previously, and the field holds the data.
Display a number as currency
You can display a number as currency, even though only the number
is typed into the field.
1. Choose Window menu > Sample05.fp5.
2. Choose View menu > Browse Mode.
3. In Layout #2, look at Fee Paid and notice that the number displays
as currency.
4. Click the number to see the data actually entered in the field.
Formatting affects only the way data is displayed. It does not change
the data.
5. Choose Window menu > MyFile05.fp5.
6. Choose View menu > Layout Mode.
7. Select the Fee Paid field.
8. Choose Format menu > Number.
9. Select options as shown in the following dialog box.
10. Click OK.
11. Choose View menu > Browse Mode to see the formatted data.
Add custom text to a layout
You will add the name of the organization to the top of the layout,
then format the text.
Add text
1. Choose Window menu > Sample05.fp5.
2. Choose View menu > Layout Mode and look at the heading at the
top of the layout.
This is your model.
3. Open MyFile05.fp5 if it is not already open.
4. Choose View menu > Layout Mode.
5. Select the text tool.
Field
tool
Drag the
new field