Manage Units in the Collection’s Inspector

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You don’t need a case table to apply, change, or remove units from attributes. The Details pane of the Cases panel of a collection’s inspector includes a Units field.

1.	In the Cases panel of the collection’s inspector, if Details aren’t showing, click Show Details.

A new pane appears, below the attribute names.

2.	Select an attribute to show the Units field for that attribute.

3.	Edit the unit for the selected attribute in the Units field.

In the illustration, typing cm in the Units field applies centimeters to length.

•To convert an attribute’s values, select the current unit and replace it with the unit you want to convert to.

•To change a unit without converting its values (usually done to correct a mistake), first delete the current unit and press Enter or Return to clear the unit, then type the new unit. If you don’t clear the mistaken unit first, Fathom will try to convert.