Tip of the Month (June 2006) Controlling the Decimal Digits Displayed by a Calculated Control Normally, calculated controls display 6 digits to the right of the decimal point. If you turn on the "Money" property, it is rounded to 2 decimal places. But say you wanted to display 1, 3, 4, or 5 decimal places for a floating point value. You can do this by using the following expressions (assuming the floating point value is stored in variable 88):
Thanks to Scott Denton of Denton Software Solutions, Inc. for this month's tip. (also see the August 2001 tip of the month) |