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Defining Objects
Designing a Form 6-23
Fill Right to Left Option
1 Click the
Filling
tab.
2Select
Fill Right to Left
if you want the first character in the
comb field to appear in the rightmost element and move left as
other characters are added.
You would still read this entry from left to right.
This is useful for entering decimal numbers, such as percentage
and currency amounts, in fields with a prefill decimal point
element. When entering $598.07 in a field, for example, 07
would always appear after the decimal point. This would not
always happen if the numbers were entered from left to right.
3 Click
OK
to apply the changes and close the dialog box.
See “Defining a Comb Element Object” on page 6-23 for more
information.
Defining a Comb Element Object
Choose
Object Definition...
in the Format menu to open the Comb
Element Definition dialog box when a comb element is selected.
To define a comb element:
1 Select left and right border measurements under
Border Height.
This sets the left and right border height of each element. You
might, for example, select
1/2
to use the popular half-border
height often seen on forms. (You will also have to use the
Object
Appearance
command to further define borders.)
2Select
Prefill element
to place a hyphen in the selected element.
This is useful for phone numbers and other hyphenated
numbers. You can select this element in Design View and
change it to another character such as a parenthesis.