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A field name must adhere to the following rules:
| • | It must be enclosed in square brackets; for example, [name]. |
| • | It must be contained in a single paragraph. |
| • | After the opening bracket, the field name must begin with a letter. For this application, a letter is any valid letter in the English language (a through z, uppercase or lowercase). Accents and other attributes are not allowed. |
| • | PowerForms does not distinguish between cases. Therefore, [CompanyName] is the same as [COMPANYNAME], or any other variation. |
| • | You may include the following punctuation symbols: hyphen (-) but not the underscore, comma (,), period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), exclamation mark (!), interrogation mark (?), parentheses ( ( ) ), apostrophe (') and quotation marks ("). |
| Note: | PowerForms does not recognize curly or smart quotes, so you might want to disable the PowerPoint option of autopresentationatting quotation marks when you create presentationmodels. |
| • | It can have any mixture of letters and spaces as long as the total within the brackets does not exceed 50 characters. |
| • | Numbers can be used at the end of the field name; however, a field name may not begin with a number or contain a number within the name. |
The following chart shows examples of valid and invalid field names.
Field name example
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Validity
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Explanation
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[a]
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Valid
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Starts with a letter.
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[A]
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Valid
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Field is equivalent to [a] because field names are case insensitive.
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[OdD CaSE]
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Valid
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Field names are case insensitive.
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[Company Name]
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Valid
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Contains only letters and spaces.
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[This is a long field]
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Valid
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It has less than 50 characters.
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[I should totally start thinking about making my field names shorter...]
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Not valid
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Field names are limited to 50 characters (excluding brackets and comments). See discussion below on comments.
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[Field number 1]
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Valid
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Ends in a number.
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[1]
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Not valid
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Field names cannot start with a number; they must start with a letter.
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[Mary had 1 little lamb]
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Not valid
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Contains a number in the middle.
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[A "peculiar" field]
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Valid
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Plain quotation marks can be embedded in field names.
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CompanyName
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Not valid
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Not enclosed in brackets.
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[ ]
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Not valid
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Field names must start with a letter.
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