Draw Forms

We need to open a new document for our form

• Click on “File” menu in the toolbar
• Click on “New”

We make a form for our template

• By selecting the “General”  tab and the template “Blank Document”
• Select the “New Template”  box
• Click OK

Now we set the margins for our form:

• Click on “File”
• Select “Page Setup”
• Fill in the various margins for Up, Down, Left and Right
• Click Ok
• Place the cursor on the top left of the name of the company or add logo (see also Lesson 16 – Insert Pictures)
• Click “Enter”

• Add a table of 2 coloumns and 6 rows using the “Insert Table” option.
• Drag the mouse from the left edge of the table to the right until you’ve reached the desired width of the first column

• Select the whole of the first row of the table
• Click on “Table”
• Click on “Merge Cells”
• For further formatting of a table, refer to Lesson 15
• Fill in the various data for the table
• Once we complete filling in this information, we place our cursor outside the table (click on the down arrow of your keyboard)
• Now we make a second table for the order list:
• Click on the “Insert Table”  button
• Add a table of 6 rows and 4 columns
• Type in the different data in the cells
• Give the table a style

Insert input

• We open the “Forms” toolbar (click with the RIGHT mouse button on an empty space in the toolbar)

• Place the cursor in the first cell under “Number”
• Click on the Toolbar button “Plain Text”
• There is a grey box in the cell
• Double-click the grey box in the cell
• A dialog box appears

• In the “Type” field, we select the “Numbers” option
• We select the desired number display
• Click OK
• Place the cursor in the cell “Item”
• Click on the “Options List” button
• There is a grey box in the cell
• Double-click the grey box in the cell
• A dialog box appears
• Type in the “Item” the the various articles you wish to add and click on the “Add” button

• Once all articles have been inserted, press the OK button
• Place the cursor in the “Price” cell
• Click the “Plaine Text” toolbar button
• Double-click the grey box in the dialog box again, we add the type (“Number”) and the “Number Display”
• Place the cursor in the “Total” cell
• Click again on “Plaine Text”
• Double again in the grey box of the cell
• Select “Calculation” in the “Type”
• Type A3 * C3 in the “Expression”  box
• Choose a number display
• Click OK

Repeat these steps for each cell in the table
To make the form “Active”, we must first protect it gainst overwriting:

• Click on the “Protect Form” which is also incidentally necessary to make the form active

Save the template:

• Click on “File” menu in the toolbar
• Click on “Save”
• Choose the folder where you want to save the template
• and click “Save”

 

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