User manual NUANCE OMNIFORM 2 REFERENCE

[. . . ] OmniForm Reference Version 2 for Windows 95/NT/3. 1 CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95030 European Offices: Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 Munich Germany Please Note In order to use this program, you should know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment. Please refer to your Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use menu commands, dialog boxes, scroll bars, edit boxes, and so on. OmniForm Reference Version 2 for Windows 95/NT/3. 1 Copyright© 1996 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, Logical Form Recognition, and OmniForm are trademarks of Caere Corporation. Formonix is a trademark of Formonix, Inc. [. . . ] To define an object: 1 Select a fillable object on your form, a fillable object in a table cell, or a comb element in design view. You cannot define non-fillable objects such as lines. Click the Object Definition button in the standard toolbar or choose Object Definition. . . in the Format menu. 2 As a handy shortcut, click the right mouse button over the selected object to open a shortcut menu. The dialog box that appears varies depending on the selected object. See the following sections for descriptions of the definition options available for each type of fillable object in a form. Defining a Graphic Object See "Creating a Graphic Object" on page 128 for detailed information. Designing a Form - 137 Defining Objects Defining a Fill Text Object Choose Object Definition. . . in the Format menu to open the Fill Text Definition dialog box when a fill text object is selected. Set Property Options 1 Click the Properties tab. 2 Type a unique name in the Name text box. A descriptive name such as Address makes a field easy to find when sorting, searching, defining calculations, and so forth. Select a type in the Type drop-down list. Type information is displayed in the status bar in fill view when the cursor is in that field. This helps the user know what kind of entry is expected in each field. Field type also helps OmniForm match data when sorting records and importing and exporting information. Select a display format in the Format drop-down list. The format you select affects how field information is displayed in fill view. Options vary according to the Type selection. · If you selected Currency as the Type, for example, you might select $0. 00 as the format. If you entered 7889 in the field, OmniForm would format the entry as $7889. 00. Formatting takes effect after you move the cursor out of a field in fill view. 3 4 Designing a Form - 138 Defining Objects · A General format leaves the field entry exactly as it is entered. In the above example, 7889 entered in the field would be displayed as 7889. · Field type also affects field validation. You can require that the field entry match the field type. [. . . ] The record looks exactly like the first record, but it can be filled with different information. You can create, delete, convert, reposition, and resize objects, among other features. resolution The fineness with which a scanner, printer, or other device stores or prints information. A 300 dpi printer can place up to 300 dots in a one-inch line. Glossary - 278 save To store information by transferring it from main memory (RAM) to a storage device. [. . . ]