Creating a Form - Conceptual Overview

Steps In Creating A New Form (for Advanced Users)

If you will be creating a form from scratch, the basic steps you need to carry out are as follows:

• From the Edit menu select Form Properties. Click on the Links tab and define your main database and any other databases you may wish to join to it.

• Click on the Output tab and enter a name for the report in the Title.

• Also change the destination printer if required.

• From the File menu select Page Setup. Decide whether you want to print the form in landscape or portrait orientation.

• Add the various objects that make up the form, to the page. A list of all the objects you can use is found on the Insert menu.

• If you want the form to prompt the user to answer a series of questions (such as the date range or invoice number to print, for example), then from the Edit menu select Form Properties. Click on the Questions tab and define any questions here.

• You may need to tell the Form when it should stop printing information or what information to skip over (filter out of the form/report). If this is the case, also click on the Rules tab and enter any "filter" and/or "exit" conditions.