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The Design Process
The Design Process
6-2 Designing a Form
This section gives a brief overview of how to design a new form. A form
can be as simple as you need or as complex as OmniForm allows.
Although the steps below are not required, they are recommended.
See "Tutorial 3 — Design Your Own Form" on page 3-21 for step-by-step
instructions on designing a form.
See "Redesigning Your Form" on page 6-33 for information on how you
can change existing forms.
To design a new form:
1
Open a new, blank form.
2
Choose Page Setup... in the File menu.
3
Select page size, orientation, and margins, and click OK.
4
Choose Save As... in the File menu.
5
Assign your form a name and location, and then click OK.
Remember to save periodically so you do not lose any work.
6
Use the drawing toolbar to create objects on the form.
7
Choose Object Definition... in the Format menu to define the
objects you created.
You can assign unique names, filling, and validation properties
for each selected object.
8
Choose Object Appearance... in the Format menu to set the new
object's appearance if necessary.
You can set borders, background color, and other properties.
9
Use the font/text toolbar to format both text objects and fillable
objects.
Text entered in Fill View will take on the formatting you
specify in Design View.
10 Drag the objects where you want them on the form and use the
arrange toolbar to align and arrange them.
11 Choose Tab Order... in the Tools menu to set a logical tabbing
order for filling the form when it is in Fill View.
12 Test your form in Fill View.
See the appropriate sections in this chapter for detailed information on
these steps as well as other Design View tools such as the Scrap Album.
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