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Chapter 9 Working with Table Cells 209
Decimals: Add this element to format how decimal digits are displayed. See Dening
the Decimals Element of a Custom Number Format on page 210 for more information.
Spaces: Use this element to control the amount of space displayed between elements.
Click the Spaces element’s triangle and choose an option. Normal adds a standard
space, Wide adds an em space, and Narrow adds a sixth of an em space. You can add
more than one Spaces element to the format eld with these options, but only one of
the Spaces elements can be Flexible. Flexible left-aligns elements that precede it and
right-aligns elements that follow it.
Scale: Use this element to size the display value of a number. For example, you can
display values over 100 as number of hundreds (1000 displays as 10). See Dening the
Scale of a Custom Number Format on page 212 for more information.
5 To display predened text before or after any element, place an insertion point in the
format eld, and then type your text. You can click any element and use the Left Arrow
and Right Arrow keys to place the insertion point.
6 To delete an element in the eld, select it, and then press Delete.
To move the element around in the eld, drag it.
7 In the Name eld, type a name for your number format.
Custom format names are listed in the Cell Formats pop-up menu in the Format pane
of the Table inspector.
8 Click OK to save your number format and apply it to the selected cells.
Heres an example of a number format:
The hyphen is a Spaces element, set to display one Normal space between the Â
currency symbol and the number.
The dollar sign is a Currency element. Â
#,### is an Integers element that displays numbers greater than 999 with a Â
thousands separator.
.## is a Decimals element. Â
When you type this number into a cell with the
above format
The number is displayed like this
10000000 Balance: $ 10,000.000
0.95 Balance: $ 0.95
.666 Balance: $ 0.67
Dening the Integers Element of a Custom Number Format
The Integers element lets you customize the appearance of integers in a table cell.
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