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Tutorial 3 — Design Your Own Form
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Define the Calculations
The final objects on this form are fill text objects that have calculations
defined on them. In Fill View, these fields become part of a calculation
that determines the profit this user makes on each job after expenses.
These calculations are very simple but you have the ability to create
much more complex ones. See Chapter 9, Using Calculations, for
detailed information.
Create and Define the Fill Text Objects
1 Click the Fill Text tool.
2 Draw a fill text object anywhere on the page.
3 With the object still selected, click the Object Definition button
or choose
Object Definition...
in the Format menu.
The Fill Text Definition dialog box appears.
•Type Rate in the
Name
text box.
•Select
Currency
in the
Type
pop-up menu.
•Select
$0.00
in the
Format
pop-up menu.
•Select
Use 1000’s Separator
and
Enclose Negatives in Parentheses.
4 Click
OK.
Numbers entered in the
Rate
fill text field will use the currency
symbol and number format appropriate to the current form
language ($3,000,000 for U.S. English for example). Negative
numbers will appear within parentheses: ($3,000,000).