#SIMPLE DOCUMENT WRITER HOW TO#

On this page you can set the look and feel of the control. For simple forms, only the General page is of any interest. The Properties dialog box has three pages: General, Data, and Events. Double-clicking on a form control also opens this dialog box. Right-click on a form control within your document and select Control from the pop-up (context) menu to open the Properties dialog box for the selected control. If you prefer not to run the wizard, click the Wizards On/Off button on the Form Controls toolbar.ДЄfter inserting the controls, you need to configure them to look and behave as you want. When you insert a group box, list box, or combo box, a wizard is launched to guide you through the setup. The mouse pointer changes back to its normal appearance. To stop inserting controls, click on the Select button on the Form Controls toolbar, or click on any of the controls you have just inserted.To change to another tool, click its icon on the toolbar.

The control button remains active, so you can insert several controls of the same type without needing to go back to the toolbar.

The control (for example, Check Box or Option Button). Some controls have a fixed size symbol followed by the name of

Holding the left mouse button down, drag the control to size it.

Click in the document where you want the control to appear.

The mouse pointer changes to look like this:

To insert a form control into the document, click the controlвЂ™s icon to select it.

Buttons can be pressed, check boxes selected, list items selected, and so on. When design mode is off, the form behaves as it would for the end user. (Click it again when you want to turn it off.) This activates the buttons for inserting form controls and selects controls for editing. Activate design modeД¬lick the Design Mode On/Off button on the Form Controls toolbar to turn design mode on. See Form controls reference for descriptions of the tools on these toolbars. The image below shows the three toolbars floating. These toolbars can be docked in different places on the Writer window or can be left floating. Some of the less commonly used controls are on a third toolbar, More Controls, which can also be opened from the Form Controls toolbar. The Form Design toolbar can also be opened from the Form Controls toolbar. The Form Controls toolbar has a button for each of the most commonly used types of control. Select View > Toolbars > Form Controls and View > Toolbars > Form Design to show them both. Two toolbars control form creation: Form Controls and Form Design. Create a new Writer document with File > New > Text document. There is nothing special to be done when creating a document to use as a form.

#SIMPLE DOCUMENT WRITER HOW TO#

This section explains how to create a simple form without any links to a data source or database and without advanced customization.

Simple document writer