2.0
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
Filling a Form
OmniForm Procedures - 95
Filling a Form
This section describes how to use both Form Assistant and the
Fill
command to open a form and fill it.
Filling Fields With Form Assistant
1 Windows 95 users: click
Start
in the Taskbar and choose
Programs
OmniForm
.
Windows NT and 3.1 users: double-click the OmniForm icon in
the Caere Applications folder.
Click the Form Assistant button in the standard toolbar if
OmniForm is already open.
Form Assistant appears.
2Select
Fill in a form
and click
Next>.
3 Select which form to use in the next window.
• Select the first option and click
Browse...
to open a form.
Select a form in the Open dialog box and click
Open
to return
to the Form Assistant dialog box.
• Select the second option to work with the current form.
This option is available only if a form is open.
4 Click
Finish>
after you select an option.
OmniForm opens the selected form in fill view.
See “The Fill View Window” on page 74 for a description.
5 Click in a field or press the Tab or Enter key to place the cursor
in the first field.
6 Type the information you want to enter.
7 Press the Tab or Enter key to move to the next field.
Press Shift-Tab or Shift-Enter to move to the previous field.
8 Continue to fill fields in this way.
See Chapter 7, Filling a Form, for detailed information on the kinds of
fields you may find on a form and how to fill them.
Using the
Fill
Command
1 If you have a form open and are in design view, click the Fill
button in the standard toolbar or choose
Fill
in the View menu.
2 Follow steps 5–8 in “Filling Fields With Form Assistant” above.