3.0
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Setup
- Form Usage
- OmniForm Procedures
- Designing a Form
- The Design Process
- The Design View Window
- 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
- The Shared Form Property
- Redesigning Your Form
- Using the Scrapbook
- Inserting OLE Objects in a Form
- Filling a Form
- Managing an OmniForm Database
- Using Calculations
- Technical Information
Using Form Assistant
2 Form Usage
Using Form Assistant
This section describes Form Assistant and its basic OmniForm functions.
Form Assistant is a dialog box that appears when launching OmniForm.
If you are new to OmniForm, you might prefer to use the Form
Assistant, which makes decision-making easy when processing a form.
Later, you might choose to use the commands in the standard toolbar or
menu. See Chapter 4, “OmniForm Procedures” for more information
about using the commands.
This section contains the following topics:
• Opening Form Assistant
• The Form Assistant Options
• Setting the Form Assistant Startup Option
Opening Form Assistant
There are several ways to open Form Assistant.
• Form Assistant opens automatically the first time you open
OmniForm.
Click
Start
in the Taskbar and choose
Programs
Caere
Applications
OmniForm
.
• If Form Assistant is not open, you can either click the Form
Assistant button in the standard toolbar at the top of the window,
or choose
Form Assistant...
in the File menu.
The Form Assistant dialog box contains six options for basic OmniForm
procedures as described in the next section. You can also select or
deselect the option
Show on StartUp
, which determines whether the
Form Assistant dialog box appears on startup.