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Add or remove percent formatting for a number

You can format a text box or expression box so that numbers that users type into the box are displayed as percentages. For example, a value of 0.2 would be displayed as 20. This formatting affects both how values are displayed and how values are saved. This means that any value typed into a control with percent formatting will be treated as a percent value. So if a user types 30 into a text box that has a percent data format, the saved value would be 0.30. If a user types 0.30, the saved value would be 0.0030.

1. In design mode, right-click the text box or expression box whose data you want to format, and then click Control Properties.
2. On the Data tab or the General tab in the Control Properties dialog box, click Format.

   Note  You can add percent formatting only for text boxes that have a decimal data type or for expression boxes that are formatted as a decimal.

3. In the Decimal Format dialog box, do one of the following:
   • To format the number as a percentage, click Percentage.
   • To remove percent formatting, click Number.

Note  Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 does not add percent symbols to numbers that are formatted as percentages. To add a percent symbol to a control's label, click where you want the percent symbol to appear, and then type %.