Timothy Bleiler wrote:

> When I get the properties of a field, the padding is included but
> appears to be the rect of the field.
> If I try to get the padding of the field directly i.e. get the
> padding of fld 1 - I get the message "the object does not have this
> property"
>
> It looks to me like something is a bug but I don't know where the
> error is because I really don't know what the rules are for the
> padding property.

This appears to be a bug, either in the docs or the engine, as this example from the Dictionary throws an error:

  set the padding of field 1 to 10

Until this is resolved you may need to specify a text chunk to apply the padding to, or use the margins property.

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