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6 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.

7 To display space between elements, place an insertion point and press the Space bar

one or more times.

8 To delete an element in the eld, select it, and then press Delete.

To move an element around in the eld, drag it.

9 In the Name eld, type a name for your date/time format.

Custom format names are listed in the Cell Formats pop-up menu in the Format pane

of the Table inspector.

10 Click OK to save your date/time format and apply it to the selected cells.

When you enter a date or time value into a formatted cell, the format is applied if the

value entered contains a hyphen (-) or a slash (/).

Here’s an example:

When you type this value into a cell with the

above format

The value is displayed like this

4/16/99 April 16 1999 falls on day 106 of the year

2-23 February 23 2008 falls on day 54 of the year

Dec. 15, 2010 Dec. 15, 2010

Creating a Custom Text Format

You can dene text to display before or after a value entered into a table cell when no

other format has been applied to the cell.

To dene text to display in table cells:

1 Select one or more cells.

2 Choose Custom from the Cell Format pop-up menu in the Format pane of the

Table inspector.

3 From the Type pop-up menu, choose Number & Text.

4 Drag the (blue) Entered Text element from the Date & Time Elements box into the

empty format eld above the box. (Delete any existing elements that may be in the

eld before dragging in the Entered Text element.)

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