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    Page Format Designer

      Product(s): Promis.e, Bentley Substation
      Version(s): through 10.01.00.23
      Environment: N/A
      Area: Drawing Management
      Subarea: Page Format Designer

    Background

    The Page Format Designer tool is used to create new drawing page formats, modify existing formats, and extract page formats from existing projects. Page formats define the sheet boundaries and any line number or zone regions. They are stored as DGN files (DWG files for promis.e for AutoCAD) in the PageFormat subfolder of the WorkSpace / Data folder.

    To open the Page Format Designer

    * is used to denote a menu selection that is not necessary in some versions or platforms.

    CONNECT Edition

    • Select Manage ribbon tab > Page Layout group > Page Format Designer
    • Function key shortcut: F2 > M > PP
      • If the Manage tab is already the active tab: F3 > PP
    • Enter Page Format Designer into the Search Ribbon (F4) box

    V8i SELECTseries 5 through 8

    • From the Tasks or ribbon area, select Manage > *Drawing Management > Page Format Designer

    V8i through SELECTseries 3

    • From the Tasks or ribbon area, select Configure > *Page Layout > Page Format Designer

    promis.e 2007

    • Select Elec-Tools > Page Format Designer

    For more information

    Click Help on the Page Format Designer dialog.

    Alternatively, for Bentley Substation CONNECT Edition, see the Page Format Designer section of online Help for Bentley Substation available from Bentley Product Documentation.

      Original Author: Matt_P

    Keywords: line number, zone, column, sheet, border

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