# How to set the color scale legend format using internal methods in paraview?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-color-scale-legend-format-using-internal-methods-in-paraview/16460
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 14, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-color-scale-legend-format-using-internal-methods-in-paraview/16460 "2025-04-14T07:08:56Z")
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### Author: ![flipper](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/flipper/32/15693_2.png) [@flipper](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/flipper)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-color-scale-legend-format-using-internal-methods-in-paraview/16460/1 "2025-04-14T07:08:56Z")

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Hi, I have called paraview in my Qt application and while initializing paraview, what is the method I can call to set the color scale legend format to regular numbers instead of scientific notation. How can I achieve this please? Thanks a lot!

regular numbers:

 ![2](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/1/0/105d13c772717a482bf40040cac8fedd78a501d1.jpeg)

scientific notation:

 ![1](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/5/55756a452b8757a1bb570441bc17761fad146d52.jpeg)

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### Author: ![nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicolas.vuaille/32/5873_2.png) [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-color-scale-legend-format-using-internal-methods-in-paraview/16460/2 "2025-04-17T12:44:53Z")

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You can look at changing the default settings for the color map legend: [12. Customizing ParaView — ParaView Documentation 5.12.0 documentation](https://docs.paraview.org/en/latest/ReferenceManual/customizingParaView.html#configuration-files)

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### Author: ![flipper](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/flipper/32/15693_2.png) [@flipper](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/flipper)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-color-scale-legend-format-using-internal-methods-in-paraview/16460/3 "2025-05-20T03:19:16Z")

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Thank you very much!