When you not have study these controls don't start with base.
The toolbar More Controls is (de)-activate with a button in the toolbar where the button for the listbox also is. Most toolbars you can activate with menu -> view -> toolbars. I think it is important to read your help file there it has a lot of detailed information. When you want select a single control then press the control key on your keyboard and select with the mouse a control with left clicking.įor more information see your help file. When you have made a form by the wizard then most control are grouped. When you have open the form in this way you can easy switch between edit mode and not edit mode. You can open it in edit mode by right clicking and then choose for edit. When you open a form as document then it is not open in edit mode but only input mode for data. You have also to understand that the word "form" does have two meanings: Understanding the idea of forms is realy important when you want work with OOo. I will try to explain the idea of forms in. The green handles appear around the field but not around the Label.2) Using the tablecontrol / grid control.
In my case, each of my payment types begins with a different letter. Then we can choose the type of payment from the Payment Type table rather than having to manually enter the type. We want to replace the PaymentType field with a List Box. Top of page Step 6: Replace fields with other fields. Use the guide lines to determine the width. Drag and drop the cursor to the left to shorten the control or to the right to lengthen the control.Move the cursor over the middle green handle on the right.The border around it appears with eight green handles. Payment needs to be changed to 3 cm (1.2 inches). All of the payment fields were changed in step 2, but Misc. We want the following controls to be 2 cm wide (0.8 inches): Breakfast, Lunch, Supper, Odometer, Snack No., Tolls, Snack Cost, Motel, and Misc. Top of page Step 5: Change the widths of the labels and fields. When you have some time, you might want to experiment with different settings just to see the results you get. For example, by changing the Alignment from Left to Center, the word or words in the label are centered within the Label. You can then drag and drop it where you want.Īll of the listings in the Properties window can be modified by you. A border appears around the control with eight green handles (Figure 26). Clicking a label or field selects the entire control.There are times when we want to work with a group of controls. Sometimes we want to work with the entire control, and other times we want to work with only the label or field. The controls in the main form consists of a label and its field. Here are some pointers that we will be using in these steps. The font color of the headings need to be changed as well. Some of the labels will have to be modified so that they can be read clearly. The background needs to be changed to a picture.Headings need to be added for each group in the main form.Changes need to be made in the Date and PaymentType columns of the subform that are similar to the changes in the main form.The Note field needs to be lengthened vertically and a scroll bar added.This box contains the entries from the Payment Type table. All the fields whose label ends in Payment will be replaced with a list box.But for a better appearance, changes will be made to these as well. Only Lunch, Supper, Motel, and Tolls have acceptable lengths. The widths of several fields and labels need to be changed.Some abbreviations should be used if possible (Misc. Some of the labels need to have their wording changed.The controls need to be move into groups: food, fuel subform, and miscellaneous.Shorten the length of the payment fields (all fields containing the word payment).It also needs to be lengthened to show the day of the week, month, day, and year. The Date field in the main form needs a dropdown capability.The discussion will follow this ten step outline. We will also modify the label for the PaymentType field as well as change the field to a list box.įirst, we must decide what we want to change and to what. We will be moving the controls to different places in the form and changing the background to a picture. Click the circle in from of Modify the form.You might want to experiment with the different possible settings.) (I chose the beige which is Orange 4 in the Color table.) Select the color you want in the Apply Styles list.Unless you have a need for any of these entries to be checked, accept the default settings.
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