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    How to get underscore working either as data field or as an underscore in the same model.

      Product: MicroStation
      Version: V8
      Environment: N\A
      Area: Text
      Subarea: Fields

    Problem

    How to get underscore working either as data field or as an underscore in the same model.

    Solution

    If you go to Workspace > Preferences > Text > ED Character and change that to any character you are not going to use (for example a Q character).

    Then enter the text you wish.

    And if we then change the ED Character back to underscore, the underscores we entered when the ED Char was still Q remain as underscores. If we would have entered a Q during the time when it was the ED Char, this would display as the character currently set as ED Char when Data Field display is on.


    See Also:

    How to create a Data Field in MicroStation v8

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      Original Author: Sami Rautiainen
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    • Sami Rautiainen Created by Bentley Colleague Sami Rautiainen
    • When: Wed, Jun 11 2014 6:25 AM
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