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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
Defining Objects
Designing a Form 27
Defining a Table Object
Choose
Object Definition...
in the Format menu to open the Table
Definition dialog box when a table object is selected. This dialog box lets
you:
• Set tabbing properties so that you can tab either from left to right
or top to bottom.
• Select the amount and width of columns.
• Select the amount and height of rows.
1 Define the table object. Click the
Properties
tab and type a
unique name in the
Name
text box.
Each table object must have a unique name. A descriptive
name such as
Order Information
makes a field easy to find when
sorting, searching, changing tab order, and so forth.
2 Select the
Tabbing
option that you want:
Left to Right
or
Top to
Bottom
. Click
OK
to apply the option.
3 Click the
Columns
tab. Type the number of columns that you
want in the table in the
Number of Columns
text box.
4 Set column width:
• Type the column width in the
Width of Columns
text box.
• If you have unequal column widths and would like them to be
the same width, select
Make Columns Equal Width
.
OmniForm resizes columns to an equal width without chang-
ing table size. If you had two columns, one four centimeters
wide and the other two centimeters wide, for example, each
would be resized to three centimeters wide.
5 Click
OK
to apply the option.
6 Click the
Rows
tab. Type the number of rows that you want in
the table in the
Number of Rows
text box.
7 Set row height:
Type the row height in the
Height of Rows
text box.