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Format Syntax
This appendix contains the symbols and formats you can use to create application-wide named formats and local formats for a particular field. A format specification controls the way a value will be formatted for display. There are three types of formats:
*String formats
*Number formats
*Date formats
This appendix describes the syntax of the format specifications in Data Access. For each type of format specification, there is a set of special symbols, each having a specific meaning. You can find information on the following topics:
*String Formats
*Number Formats
*Date Formats
*Literal Characters

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