Options

Cross-Hair Grid

When you place a Text or Field box, an automatic cross hair grid will appear for easy alignment with other boxes.  Simply right click to remove the cross-hair grid.  If you want to move the box again later, the cross-hair grid will reappear automatically.

Changing Fonts

Choose Font from the Options menu, or choose the font icon button from the menu bar and a font selection box will appear. Select Font from the first box.  If you don’t see the font that you want, click the up or down arrows, or cursor through the list.

Next, select Font Type. If you don’t see the font style that you want, click the up or down arrows, or cursor through the list. Finally, select the Size of font.  

The Sample area displays the font exactly as it will appear on the screen and in print.  Click OK when you have finished.

Note:  You cannot use more than one font, or font style size per box. 

Placing Borders

 If you want to outline a box, select the box and toggle to the cursor.  Select the box to outline and click the border icon or choose Border from the Options menu.

Aligning Information with the box

Use the icon buttons below to centre, left and right-align information within a box.

•  To centre, place the focus on the text or field item and click the centre icon. Tip: if you want to centre information on the page, size the box to be the entire width of the page.
•  To left align place the focus on the text or field item and click this icon.
•  To right align text places the focus on the text or field item and click this icon.

Adjusting Title/Text Alignment

Information or pictures that will print can be aligned within the area’s box.  To adjust the alignment you can use an automatic feature called Snap To Grid.  Choose Snap To Grid from the Options menu.  A check mark (ü) will appear beside Grid.  The box will automatically move to the nearest grid definition.  To remove the grid, select the command again.

Deleting a Box

To delete a text, field, picture or barcode box, be sure that it is in edit mode (handles around the box), and then choose the Delete command from the Text/Field menu or ctrl+d.

Displaying Rulers

Optional rulers are provided for exact measuring and aid with the creation of reports.  Choose the Horizontal Ruler and/ or the Vertical command from the Options menu.  A check mark will appear beside the selected command.  The ruler will appear at the top or the left side of the page.  You can re-position the ruler by dragging and dropping.

To remove the ruler, re-select the command.

Status Bar

You have the option of working with the Status Bar on or off.  To activate this option, choose Status Bar from the Option menu.  On your Report Builder screen, the Status Bar at the bottom provides the name of the field, which is currently active.