Understanding Numeric Formatting

In addition to the font and justification properties, you can modify these additional properties of numeric fields:

  • Display decimals

    Enables you to control the number of digits that appear after the decimal of a numeric field.

  • Edit code

    Enables you to control:

    • Whether numeric values includes commas.

    • How positive and negative values appear.

    • How currency values appear.

  • Decimal scaling

    Enables you to scale numeric fields in tabular sections only.

    See Defining Decimal Scaling.

From the Display tab of the variable properties form, you can modify the number of digits that appear in numeric fields and select edit codes.

Note: You can use processing options to control the presentation of positive and negative numbers. Processing options override the settings that are entered in RDA.