1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsharedguidedata_formsxhp" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Working with Forms</title> 28<filename>/text/shared/guide/data_forms.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id5762199"> 33<bookmark_value>opening;forms</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>forms;creating</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>design view;creating forms</bookmark_value> 36</bookmark> 37<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN105F9" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><variable id="data_forms"><link href="text/shared/guide/data_forms.xhp">Working with Forms</link> 38</variable></paragraph> 39<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10617" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Using forms, you can define how to present the data. Open a text document or a spreadsheet and insert the controls such as push buttons and list boxes. In the properties dialogs of the controls, you can define what data the forms should display.</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Form With the Form Wizard</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1061E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In %PRODUCTNAME, you can create a new form using the <link href="text/shared/autopi/01090000.xhp">Form Wizard</link>:</paragraph> 42<list type="ordered"> 43<listitem> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10632" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new form.</paragraph> 45</listitem> 46<listitem> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10636" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon.</paragraph> 48</listitem> 49<listitem> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Form</emph>.</paragraph> 51</listitem> 52</list> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Form Manually</paragraph> 54<list type="ordered"> 55<listitem> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1064C" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new form.</paragraph> 57</listitem> 58<listitem> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10650" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon.</paragraph> 60</listitem> 61<listitem> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Form in Design View</emph>.</paragraph> 63</listitem> 64</list> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1065F" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">A new text document opens. Use the <link href="text/shared/02/01170000.xhp">Form Controls</link> to insert form controls.</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="note" id="par_idN10670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">Click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon to access all forms that were created from within the current database window. In addition, you can use the <emph>Form Controls</emph> icons to add database form controls to any Writer or Calc document, but these documents will not be listed in the database window.</paragraph> 67<section id="relatedtopics"> 68<embed href="text/shared/explorer/database/main.xhp#base"/> 69<embed href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/> 70</section> 71</body> 72</helpdocument> 73