Le 20/06/11 12:19, John B a écrit : Hi John,
> I am hopeless. I tried the wizard in 3.3.3, sure enough the fields were > added but displayed as a spreadsheet (as is data) instead of a > re-designable format for just one record, AND the design /edit button is > greyed out (as are most of the other buttons) and at the top, the > wizard says "read only". There is also no matrix. Not hopeless, just less experienced with the way the wizard works. Once you understand that, it does get easier, apart from the BUGS ;-), which really don't help novices out at all. The grid form display is the default that the wizard selects for you in Step 3 of the wizard where you get to choose the automatic layout of your fields. In that dialog, you have the choice of 4 settings : - Column layout, with labels to the left of the fields - Column layout, with labels above the fields - Grid - Block layout, with labels above the fields. As click between each of these choices, you will notice the arrangement of your underlying form change. You can then just click on "Finish" for the time being because the intermediate steps provided thereafter are only relevant if you want to prevent people from adding or modifying data (i.e. if you want a read only form), or if you want to change the background colour of the form (which is currently broken). Save your form. Close it. Now right-mouse button click on your form in the list of forms in your main database file window. Choose "Edit" or "Modify" (I don't have an English version to hand at the moment, so I'm guessing), the form should then open in "Form Edit Mode". You can then go about setting page defaults, background colours, fiddling with your form fields, etc. By default, Labels and Fields are grouped together, so when you click on them with the mouse, it is the whole group that is selected, with which you can only do a rather limited set of operations (copy, paste, etc). To edit one or the other of the members of the group, left mouse button click to select, then right mouse button click on the selected group to bring up a context menu where you will see Groups > Enter group. This then lets you select the individual element of the group that you wish to edit. You can even split the group if you wish, although be aware that if you do that and then start moving things around, your label or your field will not follow. Each element of the group can be modified using a right mouse button click to select its properties. An alternative to this is to use the "Form Navigator" which, when activated, dispplays all of the elements on a form, including a hierarchical view of any subforms you might have created. Double-clicking on any entry in the Form Navigator should give you acess to that element's properties. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
