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Summary

FX Web is set up for basic, quick data entry. Below are a few things to keep in mind when entering or editing values in FX Web.

Entering Monetary Amounts     Entering Regular Text

Entering Dates

Typing an entire date in a FX Web date box is easy:

• Use the MMDDYY syntax of six (6) digits. Don't type slashes or dashes or the space bar (FX Web ignores them anyway).
• Place the cursor anywhere in the date box and simply type the six digits of your date.
• Highlighting the value and then typing the new value is virtually the same as placing the cursor in the date box.

Editing a part of a date is a little trickier. The cursor advances one space after deleting a single digit or highlighted digits. To replace one digit with another in the same place:

• First, place the cursor to the left of the digit that you want to replace.
• Press Delete. The cursor moves forward one space.
• Press the left arrow key once to move the cursor back to where you deleted the digit.
• Type the new digit.

Entering Monetary Amounts

• Initial click on zero-valued field highlights the entire value.
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  • If you start typing from left of the decimal, each digit adds to the whole number of units. Typing "6, 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9" looks like this:
    
• If you place the cursor to the right of the decimal, and before the first digit, you can type two values to indicate a fraction of a unit (like cents for U.S. dollars).
  • If you don't actively put the cursor to the right of the decimal, your edit results always appear as whole numbers.
  • Given that your field now has an amount of 6,135,789.00, typing 7 after placing the cursor to the right of the decimal yields this result:
    
  • Type 8 to make the "cents" 78.
    
• Zeroes hold one whole unit place and both decimal places, so if you press the Backspace key once, when the cursor is at the end of the value 6,135,789.78, you get the value 6,135,789.70. If you press Backspace again, you get 6,135,789.00.
• To replace digits and retain the same number of digits, highlight those digits, and then type the new ones.
• If you place the cursor at a point in the number, and then type another digit, the number expands.

  Entering Regular Text

  You must highlight text to type over characters and replace them. Pressing the Insert key on your keyboard does not allow you to type over text.

  Text fields have length limits. Do not equate the visible length of a text box as the allowed length of the value. Always check the value.
  

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