User manual NUANCE OMNIFORM 2 REFERENCE

[. . . ] OmniForm Reference Version 2 for Windows 95/NT/3. 1 CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95030 European Offices: Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 Munich Germany Please Note In order to use this program, you should know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment. Please refer to your Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use menu commands, dialog boxes, scroll bars, edit boxes, and so on. OmniForm Reference Version 2 for Windows 95/NT/3. 1 Copyright© 1996 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, Logical Form Recognition, and OmniForm are trademarks of Caere Corporation. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. [. . . ] When entering $598. 07 in a field, for example, 07 would always appear after the decimal point. This would not always happen if the numbers were entered from left to right. Click OK to apply the changes and close the dialog box. 3 "Defining a Comb Element Object" on page 144 for information on prefill elements. Designing a Form - 143 Defining Objects Defining a Comb Element Object Choose Object Definition. . . in the Format menu to open the Comb Element Definition dialog box when a comb element is selected. To define a comb element: 1 Select left and right border measurements under Border Height. You might, for example, select Half to use the popular half-border height often seen on forms. 2 Select Prefill element to place a hyphen in the selected element. You can select this element in design view and change it to another character such as a parenthesis. This tells OmniForm how many characters to allow in the selected element before moving to the next element. In some countries, for example, the length of the area code element in a phone number is 3. Click OK to apply the changes. 3 4 Designing a Form - 144 Defining Objects Defining a Check Box Object Choose Object Definition. . . in the Format menu to open the Check Box Definition dialog box when a check box object is selected. Set Property Options 1 Click the Properties tab. 2 Type a unique name in the Name text box. A descriptive name such as Yes Check Box makes a field easy to find when sorting, searching, defining calculations, and so forth. Type a group name in the Option Group drop-down list if the check box belongs to an option group. Creating an option group restricts you to one selection per check box group. Selecting a check box in an option group automatically deselects any checked box in the same group. The group name you enter automatically appears in the Option Group drop-down list of the next check box you create. The on-value is stored in the database when the check box is selected. You can let OmniForm create a unique on-value for each new check box added to a group. The off-value is stored in the database when the check box is deselected. This option is not available for grouped check boxes. 3 4 5 Designing a Form - 145 Defining Objects Set Filling Options 1 2 3 4 Click the Filling tab. Deselect Can Be Filled so an empty field cannot be filled and a filled field cannot be changed in fill view. Select Tab Stop so that the cursor automatically moves to the selected field when the user presses the Tab key. [. . . ] recalculate To reapply new or changed calculations to all selected records in a database. recognition The process of using converting a paper form into an editable electronic form. Whenever you import or open a new form and fill it in, you have a new database that consists of one record. You can create a new, blank record using the first form as a template. [. . . ]