Text Box

The following is an example of a text box:

Text box example

Text boxes are areas into which you can type information. The Left and Right arrow keys can be used to move the insertion point in the text box. The Ctrl Right and Left arrow key combinations can be used to move the insertion point to the next and prior word in the text box. The Home and End keys can be used to move the insertion point to the beginning and end of the text box.

Note: If a text box holds a numeric field, a value of zero will be defaulted if the field is left blank.

If the field for the text box is a large field the text box may be configured to enable scrolling and an Expanded Edit icon appears adjacent to it.

Text box with Expanded Edit icon

Additional capabilities are provided for display and editing data in text boxes configured this way.

Text box popup

Editable popup for Text box

Click OK to close the window saving the changes entered.

Click Undo to refresh the text to what it was before you started making changes.

Click Cancel to close the window without saving any changes you may have entered.

Note that certain special characters are converted to equivalent standard characters when entered in a text box:

Entered Character Description Unicode Converted Character Description
Curly left double quote. U+201D Straight double quote.
Curly right double quote. U+201C Straight double quote.
Curly left single quote. U+2019 Straight single quote.
Curly right single quote. U+2018 Straight single quote.
En dash. U+2013 Simple hyphen.
Em dash. U+2014 Simple hyphen.
Ellipse U+2026 Three dots.
Middle dot (bullet / centered dot) U+00B7 Asterisk.
Fraction 1/4 (using 1 character). U+00BC 1/4 (using three separate characters).
Fraction 1/2 (using 1 character). U+00BD 1/2 (using three separate characters).
Fraction 3/4 (using 1 character). U+00BE 3/4 (using three separate characters).