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Informed Designer
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...................................Lea Bromley
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appear when you draw a field, making it
easy to draw the graphics that commonly
surround a cell. Each field consists of a
title section, the title divider, a cell
section, rule lines and sometimes comb
lines (the little upright lines that
separate letters on forms used for data
entry. Each part of the field is treated
twice in the manual, once in a brief
description and again in greater detail.
The table tool is like the field tool. Like
fields, tables are graphic objects that you
use to hold information. Each table
contains one or more columns and each
column contains a cell (“a holding place
for data”). When you use this tool, the
different parts are drawn all at once,
including the column title sections, table
title section, title dividers, row lines and
column sections. This generic table is
then modified to your own design.
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Changing an Object’s Appearance
A whole chapter is dedicated to this
subject. There are a very large number of
ways you can accomplish this goal, paint
attributes, type attributes, corners, field
attributes, table attributes. Each of these
has a submenu or dialog box. You can
change more than one object at a time.
Simply select the objects you wish to
change and use a settings command or
submenu. Once you have adjusted your
desired settings, these can be locked to
prevent unintentional changes.
Objects can be duplicated once or many
times, aligned (to each other, to the
drawing grid or to a specific position on
the form), grouped/ungrouped, moved
forward or back
ward in the
drawing, resized
(by measurement,