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Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Setup
- Tutorials
- Views and Form Usage
- OmniForm Procedures
- Designing a Form
- The Design Process
- The Design View Toolbars
- Creating Objects
- General Creation Guidelines
- Creating a Text Object
- Creating a Line Object
- Creating an Oval Object
- Creating a Rectangle Object
- Creating a Graphic Object
- Creating a Fill Text Object
- Creating a Comb Object
- Creating a Check Box Object
- Creating a Circle Text Object
- Creating a Table Object
- Creating a Fill Graphic Object
- Defining Objects
- Changing Object Appearance
- Redesigning Your Form
- Using the Scrapbook
- Inserting OLE Objects in a Form
- Filling a Form
- Managing an OmniForm Database
- Using Calculations
- Calculation Overview
- Operators
- Functions
- Abs (Absolute Value)
- Avg (Average)
- Date (Current Date)
- DayName
- DayOfMonth
- DayOfWeek
- DayOfYear
- Exp (Exponentiation)
- FV (Future Value)
- Hour
- If
- Int (Integer)
- Left
- Length
- Ln (Natural Logarithm)
- Log (Base 10 Logarithm)
- Lower
- Max (Maximum)
- Middle
- Min (Minimum)
- Minute
- Mod (Modulus (Remainder))
- Month
- MonthName
- Pi
- PMT (Payment)
- Position
- Proper
- PV (Present Value)
- RecordCount
- Replace
- Replicate
- Right
- Round
- Second
- Sign
- Sqrt (Square Root)
- Sum
- Time
- Trim
- Trunc (Truncate)
- Upper
- Year
- Functions — Quick Reference
- Functions Sorted by Type
- Technical Information
- Glossary
Redesigning Your Form
Designing a Form - 159
Aligning Objects
Use the Align commands in the Format menu or the corresponding
buttons in the Arrange toolbar to move and align multiple selected
objects. See “The Arrange Toolbar” on page 125 for information about
each button in the toolbar.
Each selected object aligns to the edge of its bounding box, the
imaginary box that surrounds all objects. A bounding box appears when
you select an object and hold down the mouse button. Objects align to
the outermost selected object.
To align objects:
1 Select the objects to align.
2 Choose
Align
in the Format menu and an alignment command
in its cascading menu, or click the appropriate button in the
align toolbar.
•Select
Left
to align all selected objects by their left edges.
•Select
Right
to align all selected objects by their right edges.
•Select
Center Horizontally
to align the selected objects by their
horizontal centers.
•Select
To p
to align all selected objects by their top edges.
•Select
Bottom
to align all selected objects by their bottom
edges.
Bounding box
Horizontal centers’
alignment midpoint
Horizontal centers