User`s guide

The object is imported from the file into the text object on your report.
11.3.10 Spacing between text-based objects
Use the grid and guidelines options to help evenly align text-based objects.
You can select the Snap To Grid option, set the grid to a maximum of one inch, and make the grid
visible or invisible on the Design tab, Preview tab, or both. For more information on working with grids,
see Using the grid.
You can also work without a grid, placing objects wherever you want them on a report. You may want
to work in a free-form environment while retaining the ability to align objects, or to move or resize them
as a group. You can do this using guidelines. See Designing with guidelines .
11.3.10.1 Using the grid
The grid is a series of row and column coordinates. When the grid is selected and the Snap To Grid
option is selected on the Layout tab of the Options dialog box, Crystal Reports enables you to place
text-based objects only at these coordinates, not between them. You can then space data on your
report and align objects as needed. If you attempt to place an object between grid coordinates, the
object "snaps" to the grid; that is, the object automatically moves to the nearest set of row and column
coordinates.
Each report contains a design grid. You can select the grid on or off, as well as set it to different sizes
when required. By default, the grid is not selected. See Selecting the grid.
Once set, the grid remains the same size for all sections. It is measured from the upper-left corner of
each section and continues down and to the right, until the end of the section. A new grid of the same
size then starts from the upper-left corner of the next section, and so on, through the end of the report.
If you select the Snap To Grid option, the following conditions occur:
• The upper-left corner of all newly placed, text-based and OLE objects snap to a grid point.
• Objects placed on a report before the Snap To Grid option is selected do not snap to the nearest
grid point. They remain in the same place.
• If you resize an object, the side or sides that you are resizing snap to the nearest grid point.
11.3.10.2 Selecting the grid
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