The project would start in three weeks and the first form he wanted done was a 9 page, 800 field, it has to be exact or they send it back, form. The version 2 of 4D is easier to learn than the original but I knew I couldn't master it and create that database in three weeks. I looked at FileMaker but it didn't seem to have the control of field placement I needed to copy this form. I had been looking at Smart Form but it got eliminated for the same reason as FileMaker. Then Vickie Limparis at Cactus Computing Service showed me how True Forms could do everything I need to recreate and fill out this form in my Mac and I realized my ego was saved. I convinced (con being the optimum syllable there) my super a forms package was the best short term solution so we bought it. Now the ego was back on the line. I had to learn the program and do the form. I made the three week deadline with only a couple of 14 hour days. In tackling such a complex project I learned a lot about the True Form package. "Package! I thought you called it a program."
The True Form package consists of two programs, True Form Set-Up and True Forms Fill-Out, but to me True Form is the Set-Up portion. In Fill-Out you can only input text, change text attributes, control print out and data export. The real work of creating the form is done in Set-Up.
"Spoken like a true computer snob. What about the poor data
encoder who has to sit in front of the screen and type that
