•Type text directly into the field.

•Enter text into the Multi-line Edit field of the part's settings view.

•Connect the object attribute of the field to an object containing the data to be displayed. VA Smalltalk provides data-type converters, accessible through the Report Text Field settings view that you can use to convert the data to a display format. If Report Text Field is connected to an object representing the balance of a bank account, for example, you can specify Monetary Amount as the converter for the Report Text Field so that the balance displays with a monetary unit symbol, commas, and decimal point.