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Aligning Fields
When repositioning a field by dragging it, Argos will display blue horizontal or vertical
alignment guidelines to assist you in aligning a field with other fields. In the figure below,
note the blue vertical alignment line (to the left of the “R” in REGION) that appears when
moving the REGION title to align it with the region_name field.
Figure 54 – Alignment guidelines
There are also alignment icons within the Band Report Editor toolbar (shown below) that
can be used to align multiple fields to each other. The methods for selecting multiple
objects is described below.
Selecting and Aligning Multiple Fields
Multiple fields can be selected by depressing the shift key and clicking on the desired
field(s). Each selected field will then be surrounded by a rectangle with small grey boxes
on the corners. These fields can be moved or aligned as a group. In the figure below, all
fields are surrounded by the small grey boxes, indicating that they are grouped together.
Figure 56 – Grouping fields together
Multiple fields can also be selected by depressing the Ctrl key and dragging the cursor to
create a rectangle around the fields that you want to include. All objects enclosed within
the box will be individually surrounded by the small grey boxes described above and can
be moved or aligned as a group. The rectangle shown in the figure below (created by
dragging the cursor) shows seven fields that have been selected and will be treated as a
group.
Figure 57 – Selecting multiple objects
When using the alignment tools, select one object, then select additional objects to be
aligned using either method described above. All objects will be aligned to the first object
selected.
Icon Usage
Align by left sides
Align by horizontal centers
Align by horizontal center of
parent
Stretch to be same horizontal
size
Align by right sides
Align by top sides
Align by vertical centers
Stretch to be same vertical
size
Align by bottom sides
Align by vertical center of
parent
Figure 55 – Alignment icons