CONVERTER PARTS
2.2. Menu
This section describes the function of each menu item. Many menu items are shown with a keyboard shortcut. When such a shortcut is available, you may use the keyboard combination instead of choosing it in the menu.
- CTRL+QExit
- Close Unit & Number Converter.
- CTRL+Z Undo
- Reverses the last command or deletes the last entry you typed.
- CTRL+X Cut
- Copies the selected text to the clipboard and then clears it from the input line.
- CTRL+C Copy
- Copies the selected text to the clipboard for pasting into other applications.
- CTRL+V Paste
- Copies the text from the clipboard and places it in the input line.
- DEL Delete
- Deletes the selected text or, if nothing is selected clears one character from the left.
- CTRL+S Convert to SI Base Units
- Show a complex unit using only seven base SI units.
- CTRL+A Select All
- Unit & Number Converter selects the whole expression in the input line.
- ESC Clear Input Line
- Clears the input line.
- Automatic Mode
- Automatic mode displays numbers exactly as you enter them and answers to 15 significant decimal places.
- Scientific Mode
- Scientific notation expresses a number as a mantissa - with only one digit to the left of the decimal point and the user-specified number of decimal places - and the exponent
- Engineering Mode
- Engineering notation expresses a number as a power of ten such that the numeric value is greater
than or equal to 1 but less than 1000, and the exponent is a multiple of three.
- Fixed Mode
- Fixed mode displays numbers rounded to an user specified number of decimal places (default is 6)
- Decimal Places
- Specifying the number of decimal places (0-6) after decimal point.
- Decimal Separator
- You can use the dot (.) or comma (,) as decimal separator
Dot (0.5)
Comma (0,5)
- Use Digit Grouping
- If the Digit Grouping is checked, then the number is shown in decimal format with a separator (small space) that separates groups of three digits from both sides of the decimal separator.
- Grouping Binary Digit
- If the Grouping Binary Digit is checked, then the binary number is separated into groups of four digits starting from the right.
- F9 Show Database...
- Open the database of units and prefixes.
- F11 Always on Top
- Including this option will make the Unit & Number Converter visible even when it is not active.
- Online Help
- The Online Help for Unit & Number Converter provides a detailed help files with syntax, usage, and examples for all of the supported functions.
- F1 About SolCalc
- Displays a dialog in which some information about the current version of Unit & Number Converter can be found.
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