ADCB's cheque does not use the 202 x 93 mm footprint that a lot of the Gulf settled on. It measures 197 x 99 mm — five millimetres narrower and six taller. That sounds trivial until you try to reuse an Emirates NBD layout on it and every field sits low and slightly right.
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank cheque at a glance
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Size | 197 x 99 mm |
| Date | Single continuous field |
| Amount in words | Two lines |
| Payee | One line |
| A/C payee crossing | Vertical block, enabled |
| Bearer field | Not used |
| Date format | DD/MM/YYYY |
Two conventional layouts, and one Islamic
ChequeMaster ships two ADCB layouts at 197 x 99, because the bank has issued more than one stationery design at that size over the years. If your first choice puts fields slightly off, try the other before you start editing anything — it is a two-second test that solves this more often than you would expect.
ADCB Islamic is a different cheque entirely and has its own layout — see ADCB Islamic banking cheques, which run 221 x 115 mm. Do not assume the conventional layout will do.
Getting it printing
- Add a bank account under ADCB.
- Create a cheque book against it and select the ADCB layout.
- Print one cheque onto plain A4 and hold it against a real leaf up to a light.
- If everything is off by the same amount, adjust the margins in Settings. If fields are wrong relative to each other, switch to the second ADCB layout.
Currency notes
The dirham takes two decimal places, so the default decimal setting is already right. Leave the amount-in-words unit set to millions rather than lakhs unless your payees genuinely read the South Asian convention — AED 1,250,000 should print as One Million Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dirhams.
Other UAE banks in ChequeMaster: Emirates NBD, FAB, Dubai Islamic Bank and Emirates Islamic.
