User Guide

Operating VRS
VRS User’s Manual
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Prefix
The Prefix is an optional sequence of characters that you can set to precede the rest of
your imprinting string. Typically, the prefix consists of a text string and a date. If no
prefix is manually entered into the Prefix box, an empty string will be returned. When
creating your text string, you will need to limit it to the characters in Table 2-7.
You can manually enter the text string or date to be used during annotation, or you
can select from the Prefix drop-down list to insert pre-formatted date information into
the prefix string. These are the Prefix drop-down date format choices:
• YYYY-MM-DD
• DD-MMM-YY
• DD MMM YYYY
• MMM/DD/YYYY
• MMM/DD/YY
• MM/DD/YYYY
• MM/DD/YY
• MMM DD, YYYY
• MM.DD.YYYY
• MMM. DD, YY
• YYYY
•YY
•MMM
•MM
•DD
• YYDDD (Julian)
Table 2-7. Acceptable Prefix Text String Characters
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0-9
% - _/\#.][()=+< > &
A-Z
a-z