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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 2 — Edit and Design a Form
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7 Draw a text object next to the check box and type Check here
to receive our next catalogue.
8 Draw a text object below the check boxes and type Number of
times a year you use our catalogue:.
9 Click the Lock tool to deselect it.
Create Circle Text Objects
1 Click the Circle Text tool in the drawing toolbar.
2 Draw a circle below the check boxes.
3 Select the circle and choose
Copy
in the Edit menu.
4 Choose
Paste
in the Edit menu, then choose
Paste
again to create
two new circles.
This is an easy way to create objects of the same size. (You
could also hold down the Ctrl key and drag a selected object to
copy it.)
5 Select the second circle and type 2.
6 Select the third circle and type more.
7 Line up the circles under the last text object you drew.
Align and Format the Objects
1 Shift-click to select the
Name:, Address:, City:,
and
Phone Number:
text objects.
2 Click the Align Left button in the arrange toolbar.
The objects align evenly along their left edges.
3 Select other objects and use the buttons in the arrange toolbar
to line them up evenly on the page.
You could also use the
Snap to Grid
command in the Tools menu
if it is not selected already. A check mark in front of the
command means it is selected. Objects “snap” to the