Re: Calculations Result Sometimes Displays 000, Sometimes 444
- From: Helpful Harry <helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:39:20 +1200
In article <1119497230.203934.270590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Sug" <adam.sugerman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Harry -
>
> Thanks for taking a shot at this, because we've cracked it. I began
> this reply by listing why each of your solutions wasn't correct, but
> when I was addressing your mention of strange formatting options, it
> suddenly occurred to me, what if it's a fill character? If that were
> the case, each tab would display with exactly the number of fill
> characters that fit into the space, which in this situation happened to
> be three.
>
> Sure enough, the fill character for each tab was set to 4 on one of the
> fields and 0 on another. I can't believe I spent so many hours trying
> to crack this.
>
> But the real question is, why would three fields, each the duplicate of
> the other (as in command-D; as in, option-drag; as in, never accessed
> the text formatting dialog, let alone the _tab_ dialog three levels
> down), suddenly set all the tab stops to 0 or 4? Doesn't make sense.
> Is there a key combination I inadvertently pressed that sets tab fill
> characters? Seems unlikely.
>
> Nonetheless, I'm hugely relieved to have this solved. It was a real
> time-burner.
It's always the simplest answer that's over-looked. I probably wouldn't
have thought of looking at the fill character either. At least you've
now solved the problem. :o)
I doubt there's a keypress that would auto-set a field to use a tab
fill character to "4" or "0". Although it is possible when formatting
the field yourself to press the wrong key by accident (eg. perhaps you
wanted a hyphen as the fill character at some stage and hit the 0
instead).
It is also possible to set field format defaults by making sure you
haven't got anything selected and then changing the format options in
the menus or the side-toolbar. After doing that, any new field or text
added to a layout (not duplicate or copy / paste) will automatically
get that new default formatting. For example, click on 'nothing',
change the fill colour to yellow, then add a field or text and it will
be filled yellow.
Of course, when you duplicate or copy / paste a field it will also
duplicate any field formatting that the original field has.
Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)
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