Form

Contains commands for activate form design mode, open control wizards and insert form controls in your text document.

Design Mode

Enable or disable form design mode.

Control Wizards

Enable or disable control wizards.

Label Field

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Adds a field for displaying text labels. These labels are only for displaying predefined text, and not for entering text.

Text Box

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Adds an input box where you can enter and edit text.

Check Box

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Adds a check box that you can use to turn a function on or off.

Option Button

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Adds a button that allows a user to select from a number of options. Grouped option buttons must have consecutive tab indices. They are commonly encircled by a group box. If you have two groups of option buttons, you must insert a tab index between the tab indices of the two groups on the group frame.

Combo Box

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Adds a combo box. A combo box is a one line list box that a user can click, and then choose an entry from the list. If you want, you can make the entries in the combo box "read only".

Button

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Adds a command button. You can use a command button to execute a command for a defined event, such as a mouse click.

If you want, you can add text or a graphic to the button.

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Formatted Field

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Adds a text box where you can define the formatting for text that is inputted or outputted as well as any limiting values.

More fields

Date, time, numerical, currency and pattern form fields.

Group Box

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Adds a frame that you can use to visually group similar controls, such as option buttons.

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File Selection

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Adds a button that opens a file selection dialog.

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Control Properties

Opens a dialog for editing the properties of a selected control.

Form Properties

In this dialog you can specify, among others, the data source and the events for the whole form.

Form Navigator

Opens the Form Navigator. The Form Navigator displays all forms and subforms of the current document with their respective controls.

Tab order

When a form is selected, it opens the Tab Order dialog, where the indices for focusing the control elements on the Tab key are defined.

Open in Design Mode

Opens forms in Design Mode so that the form can be edited.

Automatic Control Focus

Enable or disable Automatic Control Focus