🚀 go-pugleaf

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Structured FrameMaker 7.2p158
Windows XP Professional 7.0.0 12/14/2004 Service Pack 2
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Is there a way to enter numbers as text in the tables? In Excel, you would put an apostrophe ( ' ) before it and it would treat it as text (and would display the number in the table WITHOUT the apostrophe in front of it). I can't get FrameMaker to do that. I have a column that has part numbers that have a hyphen in it, and instead of a hyphen, Frame thinks it's a minus sign and is trying to subtract the two numbers. So when it sorts, it's sorting by the difference instead of by the whole number and so they are not actually being sorted the way they should.

for an example...look at all the 501- numbers....this is after sorting on Part Number....

Ref	CAGE	Part Number	Item Name
4A6	0A7M7	501-5682 	PROCESSOR, 440MHZ
4A4	0A7M7	501-5560	CCA, LED
4A4	0A7M7	300-1434 	POWER SUPPLY
4A4	0A7M7	501-5218	CCA, MEMORY RISER
4A6	0A7M7	501-5437 	CCA, ALARMS
4A4	0A7M7	540-4262	CPU FAN ASSEMBLY
4A4	0A7M7	501-5437 	CCA, ALARMS
4A6	0A7M7	501-5560	CCA, LED
4A6	0A7M7	501-5561	CCA, FAN CONTROL
4A4	0A7M7	501-5561	CCA, FAN CONTROL
4A4	0A7M7	501-4743	SIMM 256MB, 1MX32
4A6	0A7M7	530-2514	SWITCH
4A6	0A7M7	540-4262	CPU FAN ASSEMBLY
4A4	0A7M7	300-1407	CONVERTER, DC TO DC
4A4	0A7M7	501-5218	CCA, MEMORY RISER
4A6	0A7M7	300-1407	CONVERTER, DC TO DC