U.M. (Windows)
Table Of Contents
- Preface: Getting help
- Chapter 1: FileMakerPro basics
- Chapter 2: Creating a database file
- Chapter 3: Laying out and arranging information
- Understanding layouts
- Working with predefined layout types
- Arranging records in columns
- Managing layouts
- Working with layout parts
- Changing layout parts
- Working with all object types
- Working with graphic objects
- Working with fields in a layout
- Adding fields to a layout
- Adding merge fields
- Deleting a field from a layout
- Defining display formats for fields
- Determining data entry in fields
- Setting the tab order for data entry
- Adding scroll bars to fields
- Formatting repeating fields
- Adding borders, fill, and baselines to fields
- Defining value lists
- Formatting fields with value lists
- Working with text
- Chapter 4: Working with information in records
- Working in Browse mode
- Adding data to a file
- Selecting a field for data entry
- Adding and duplicating records
- Entering and changing data in fields
- Working with container fields
- Entering data from a value list
- Viewing and inserting data from another source
- Copying and moving values and records
- Using drag and drop to move information
- Replacing field values
- Working with records
- Finding information
- Deleting records
- Sorting records
- Chapter 5: Using ScriptMaker and buttons
- Chapter 6: Previewing and printing information
- Chapter 7: Networking and access privileges
- Chapter 8: Importing and exporting data
- Chapter 9: Customizing FileMakerPro
- Chapter 10: Using data from related files
- Chapter 11: Publishing files on the Web
- About the World Wide Web
- About FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Publishing your database on the Web—an overview
- Getting ready to publish your files on the Web
- Setting up FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Configuring FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Setting up Instant Web Publishing
- Database security
- Helping Web users find your database
- Custom Web Publishing
- Appendix A: Recovering damaged files
- Appendix B: Working with international files
- Appendix C: Summary of functions
- Appendix D: Linking and embedding objects
- Index
3-78 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Working with text
Text makes a layout easier to use and understand. When you add text to
the body of a layout, FileMaker Pro displays the text with every record.
Add text for labels or column headings that identify fields, instructions
on a form, report titles, page or record numbers, and so on. On some
predefined layout types, FileMaker Pro displays the field name as text.
Text typed or pasted on a layout is a text object (except when it’s part of
a graphic), which you can select, group, move, shape, cut, or copy, as
any other object.
Note Text objects do not appear when you publish a database on the
Web using FileMaker Pro Web Companion Instant Web Publishing.
FileMaker Pro can use all the fonts installed on your system. You can set
the font for text before you type it, or you can change the font of existing
text or field objects.
Keep these points in mind:
1 You can also use drag and drop and context menus to edit text. See
“Using drag and drop to move information” on page 4-13 and “Editing
objects and data quickly using the context menu” on page 3-42.
Changing these field
labels doesn’t affect
the actual field names