Specifications

Working in the Form painter Layout view
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Using the pop-up menus in the Form painter
Each element of the form (such as text, columns, computed fields, buttons,
even the form itself) has a pop-up menu you can use to perform appropriate
actions and display the associated properties in the Properties view.
❖ To use a pop-up menu in the Form painter Layout view:
1 Position the pointer over the control or the background of the form.
2 Press the right mouse button.
Here is the pop-up menu for a column of data or a text control in a freeform
form:
3 Click the menu item you want.
To display the control properties in the Properties view, you select Properties
from the pop-up menu. To perform an action, for example Cut, you select the
action.
Using the Properties view in the Form painter
All controls in a form (such as text, columns, computed fields, buttons, and so
on) and the form itself have properties you can use to modify the form. The
properties that display in the Properties view are appropriate to the control you
have selected.
❖ To use the Properties view in the Form painter:
1 Position the pointer over the part you want to modify.
2 Display the pop-up menu and select Properties.
The appropriate properties display in the Properties view.