Forms Design Toolbars

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The Forms Design window contains several toolbars that allow you to create new customized forms or edit existing forms to match your business's needs.

Forms Design toolbars include:

Showing and Hiding Toolbars

Tip: To quickly hide a floating toolbar, click the Close button on the toolbar.

Moving Toolbars

You can move each toolbar around within the Forms Design window. Toolbars can dock (attach) to inside edges of the window, or toolbars can float freely within the window. To move a toolbar, drag it using your mouse pointer.

Main Toolbar

The Main toolbar (by default, at the top of the window) contains the following buttons: Close, Save, Options, Print, Undo, and Help.

Forms Design Main toolbar

Object Toolbar

Use the Object toolbar to select, insert, delete, align, or resize objects on your form.

Select: Select this to use the Selection tool to highlight or select one or more form objects.

Add: Select Add to add an object to the form. You can add an image or logo, data field, text field, column field, shape, line, or other object using this tool.

Delete: Select Delete to delete the object or objects that you have selected on the form.

Line Up: Select Line Up to align the objects that you have selected on the form.

  • Line Up-Left: Aligns the selected objects to match the left border of the last selected object.
  • Line Up-Right: Aligns the selected objects to match the right border of the last selected object.
  • Line Up-Top: Aligns the selected objects to the top of the last selected object on a horizontal line.
  • Line Up-Bottom: Aligns the selected objects to the bottom of the last selected object on a horizontal line.

Resize: Select Resize to resize the objects that you have selected on the form.

  • Resize-Same width: Makes all selected objects the same width as the last selected object.
  • Resize-Same height: Makes all selected objects the same height as the last selected object.
  • Resize-Same width & height: Makes all selected objects the same width and height as the last selected object.

Formatting Toolbar

Use the Formatting Toolbar to change the format of the selected object on your form. Use this toolbar to change the font, color, and background color of the selected object. If you have selected a text object, you can click the Edit Text button to change the text. Clicking the Properties button will open the corresponding property window, where you can modify the object's properties.

Cursor Position Toolbar

Use the Cursor Position toolbar to determine the current position of your mouse pointer. This can be helpful when sizing or aligning objects.

Cursor Position toolbar

Properties Toolbar

Use the Properties toolbar to display or access the current properties of a selected object on your form.

Properties toolbar

When an object is selected in the design area, the object's order, the object's type, and object's field property appear in a drop-down list. For text objects, the first line of text appears. The shape objects, the type of shape is listed. To display detail about the object selected in the list, click the Properties button. The corresponding property window appears, where you can modify the object's properties.

Tip: To quickly locate a specific object on your form, scroll down or up in the Properties drop-down list, and click it. The object is selected on the form.

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