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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
Tutorial 1 — Load and Fill a Form
Tutorials - 26
Create a Circle Text field
1 Click the Circle Text tool in the drawing toolbar.
Your cursor changes to a plus sign with a circle.
2 Draw a circle (or oval) around the word
Yes
next to the words
Would you like to receive more information?
You will select this circle later in fill view.
Format Text
1 Click the table to select it.
2 Click the first field under the word
Cost
in the table to select it.
In an object with multiple elements — a comb or table — you
must always click to select the whole object first and then click
again to select the specific element.
3 Click the Right Alignment button in the font/text toolbar.
Hold your cursor over the button without clicking to see the
ToolTip if you have trouble finding the button.
Now numbers entered in this
Cost
cell will be right-aligned. If
you format the other cells under
Cost
all the decimal points will
line up.
4 Choose
Select Special...
in the Edit menu.
The Select Special dialog box opens.
5Select
Fill Text
and click
OK.
All fill text fields are selected, including the fill text fields in the
table cells.
6 Click the Bold button in the font/text toolbar
.
Now all text in the fill text fields will be bold.