How To Format Number

[The Missing Man]

I appear to be lost in FM13. All I want to do is format my number field as a price with dollar sign and two decimal points but I cannot find the listing in the drop down.

Does it not exist in FM13? Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Mark Scott]

Hello Missing,

 

Look in the "Data Formatting" panel, under the "Data" tab of the Inspector:

 

hth,

 

Mark

[The Missing Man]

Thanks, I cannot believe I could not find this.

[Ocean West]

however this only works on an actual FIELD if you wanted to say format a block of text on a layout with merged variables and have multiple numbers not just currency - you may need to use a custom function and create a field to make text format as currency. As the formatting for text object will apply that format to the entire block - as long as you only had one currency and no other numbers in that text block you could get away with it.