Making Form Metrics settings
Use the Form Metrics tab in the User Preferences dialog box to control how forms and form components that are created by the New Form Wizard, the New Data Maintenance Wizard, or the XML to IDO Wizard are displayed by default. These settings affect only those forms. They can be overridden in Design Mode after their initial creation.
To edit form metrics settings:
- Select .
- Select the Form Metrics tab.
- Adjust the settings to your preferences.
The Form Metrics tab has two sub-tabs, each with multiple options:
- Common sub-tab settings are general form settings, those which affect the form as a whole.
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Component sub-tab
settings are settings that apply specifically to different types of components
that might appear on a form.
On the Component sub-tab, you can specify settings for form display in general. All measurements are given in character units.
These options specify the default sizes of many common form components. In the case of subcollection grid and notebook sizes, the effects of these settings depend on what option is chosen for the Default Form Layout field on the Common tab.
- Optionally, perform one of these actions:
- To restore the default settings to their original values, click .
- To save your altered form metrics settings to a template that you can load later, click .
- To load a set of saved form metrics settings from a template file for reuse, click .
- To save and implement your settings, click .