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PrintingOne of the biggest hurdles that new users (and sometimes even long time users!) havewould be defining whether the field that they're adding is "character", "numeric","date", or some other field type. You could have a field that contains nothing butnumbers, yet when you use a numeric expression, it gives you an error. That's wherethis guide comes in. When you understand how to identify the type of field you'reprinting, and how to combine it with other fields, template creation becomes incrediblysimple. Use this in conjunction with the Label Layout Assistant and the instructionsfound in the Page Layout and Page Setup and Creating a Title or Summary Band tocreate any type of label or report that you want.DEFINING THE FIELD TYPEThe first step for any user attempting to create a custom label is to determine the fieldtypes that he or she will be printing. The steps to do this are extremely simple, yetcritical. To do so, you'll want to be looking at your database in the List View, and thenfollow the instructions below.From the Edit menu, select Fields. The Table Designer window appears, as shownbelow:As you may notice, most databases have many fields that list Character in the secondcolumn. Character fields can contain letters, numbers, or symbols. However, you'll alsonotice the "account" field listed in the Table Designer is identified as a Numeric field159