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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 3 — Design Your Own Form
Tutorials - 41
Create the Text Objects
1 Click the Text tool in the drawing toolbar.
You need text objects named Customer:, Contact:,
Address:, City:, State:, Zip:, Job Type, Editing,
Tech Writing, Marketing Writing, Advertising
Copy, Rate:, Expenses:, Profit:, and Comments:.
2 Create the text objects in one of three ways:
• Click the Lock tool in the drawing toolbar to keep the Text tool
selected.
Draw a text object, type its name while it is still selected, then
draw the next one, and so on. Click the Lock tool to deselect it
when you are done.
• Draw a text object.
With the object still selected, choose
Copy
and then
Paste
in the
Edit menu. Keep choosing
Paste
until you have created as
many text objects as you need. Select each object one at a time
and type its name.
• Draw a text object.
With the object still selected, hold down the Ctrl key and drag
to create a copy. Repeat this for each new text object you need.
Select each object one at a time and type its name.
3 Line the text objects up approximately where you see them on
the form on page 40.
Create the Fill Text Objects
Customer Information
1 Click the Fill Text tool in the drawing toolbar.
2 Draw five fill text objects as described in step 2 in the previous
section.
3 Resize the objects as necessary.