Text Properties - Stripping Tab

The Stripping tab is used to remove characters and spaces from the text object.

This is normally used to remove unnecessary spaces in data that's been merged from a database. It can also be used to strip characters in linked objects.

Field

Description

Strip Matching Characters

Check Strip Leading, Strip Trailing, or both, and enter the character/characters to remove from the beginning and/or end of the text.

NOTE: By default, spaces are stripped.

Strip Specific Number Of Characters

Check this box and enter the number of characters to remove from the beginning and/or end of the text.

Strip Matching Characters First

Check to remove specific matching characters first, then remove the specified number  of characters from the beginning and/or end of the text.

NOTE: If this is not checked, the number of characters specified are removed first.

 

 

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