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# Form

Contains commands for activate form design mode, open control wizards and insert form controls in your text document.

## Design Mode

Enable or disable form design mode.

## Control Wizards

Enable or disable control wizards.

## Label Field

Adds a field for displaying text labels. These labels are only for displaying predefined text, and not for entering text.

## Text Box

Adds an input box where you can enter and edit text.

## Tick Box

Adds a check box that you can use to turn a function on or off.

## Option Button

Adds a button that allows a user to select from a number of options. Grouped option buttons must have consecutive tab indices. They are commonly encircled by a group box. If you have two groups of option buttons, you must insert a tab index between the tab indices of the two groups on the group frame.

## Combo Box

Adds a combo box. A combo box is a one line list box that a user can click, and then choose an entry from the list. If you want, you can make the entries in the combo box "read only".

## Button

Adds a command button. You can use a command button to execute a command for a defined event, such as a mouse click.

If you want, you can add text or a graphic to the button.

### Image Button

Creates a button displayed as an image. Aside from the graphic representation, an image button has the same properties as a "normal" button.

## Formatted Field

Adds a text box where you can define the formatting for text that is inputted or outputted as well as any limiting values.

## More fields

Date, time, numerical, currency and pattern form fields.

## Group Box

Adds a frame that you can use to visually group similar controls, such as option buttons.

## Image Control

Creates an image control. It can only be used to add images from a database. In the form document, double-click one of these controls to open the Insert Graphic dialogue to insert the image. There is also a context menu (not in design mode) with commands for inserting and deleting the image.

Images from a database can be displayed in a form, and new images can be inserted in the database as long as the image control is not write-protected. The control must refer to a database field of the image type. Therefore, enter the data field into the properties window on the Data tab page.

## File Selection

Adds a button that opens a file selection dialogue.

## Table Control

Creates a table control to display a database table. If you create a new table control, the Table Element Wizard appears.

Special information about Table Controls.

## Navigation bar

Creates a Navigation bar.

The Navigation bar allows you to move through the records of a database or a database form. The controls on this Navigation bar work the same way as the controls on the default Navigation bar in LibreOffice.

## Control Properties

Opens a dialog for editing the properties of a selected control.

## Form Properties

In this dialog you can specify, among others, the data source and the events for the whole form.

## Form Navigator

Opens the Form Navigator. The Form Navigator displays all forms and subforms of the current document with their respective controls.

## Tab order

When a form is selected, it opens the Tab Order dialogue, where the indices for focusing the control elements on the Tab key are defined.

## Open in Design Mode

Opens forms in Design Mode so that the form can be edited.

## Automatic Control Focus

Enable or disable Automatic Control Focus