Hi Jack,
I was signing on to apologize to *you* when I found this gracious message.
You were absolutely right. I *should* have referred to the archives first.
When I did I found information I needed. My post was a clear case of
immediacy standing in the way of better judgement. In particular, reviewing
list posts, I found yours of 27 Aug 2001, as part of a thread which
treated my question in detail. The following of yours bears repetition:
"The absolute best way to 'fix' the layouts for your organization is to
invest the time and money to learn enough about Filemaker so that you can
safely modify these layouts."
The essence of my problem was that "I was taken by surprise when the layout
mode was not accessible" (Layout was dimmed in the VIEW menu).
But unaccountably Layot was not dimmed when I returned to ebase labels a
second time. It's surprizing how often, when a things doesn't work the
first time, trying again it works. Once I was in Layout, I added the
standard Header (Part) to the label Body, and the Avery #5660 labels I was
using centered perfectly.
I value your posts highly. They are authoritative and clear. The
calculation you wrote for me changing just the year in Post Dates of YTK
1900 & 1901's to 2000 & 2001's worked perfectly the first time I tried it
and saved me editing over a thousand records manually. Thank you!
So please, Jack, post away!
Henry
>Hmmmm...I've read this posting a few times since I sent it early this
>morning, and I have to admit that it registered fairly high on the "Snide
>Scale".
>
>I sincerely apologize for that.
>
>There are at least three problems that have probably resulted: (1) some
>folks that don't even know me (and perhaps some that *thought* they did)
>now think I'm an insensitive dolt; (2) the original poster feels worse than
>he ought to; and (3) other users may be more reluctant to send in posts
>because they'll get jumped on by me or others like me.
>
>The intent of my response was simply to point out to the poster how I, as
>an ebase consultant, interpreted his posting. I was going for "humorous,
>but gets the point across". I fear that I may have crossed the "snide
>barrier" instead. Perhaps it was the second cup of joe this morning, or
>working with too many clients with major problems lately, or the phase of
>the moon, or whatever. In any case, I am very sorry if I ruffled any
>feathers. That was really not my intent.
>
>And please, folks, post away!
>
>>Let me get this straight...Other developers should take time out of their
>>day to answer a question that's probably been discussed many times because
>>you don't have the time to search the archives for the answer? Best of
>>luck...
>>
>>>I need to learn quickly, this afternoon if at all possible, how to use the
>>>layout mode in ebase inorder to make a wider header for printing labels.
>>>As is, the labels are centered too high on the page. This must have been
>>>discussed many times but I don't have time to search the archives for this
>>>mailing. I was taken by surprise when the layout mode was not accessible
>>>from the ebase label function even though ebase had been opened as an
>>>existing file in FMP 5.5.
>>>Many thanks.
>
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