1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4 5<!-- 6 *********************************************************************** 7 * 8 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 9 * 10 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 11 * 12 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 13 * 14 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 15 * 16 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 17 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 18 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 19 * 20 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 21 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 22 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 23 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 24 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 25 * 26 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 27 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 28 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 29 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 30 * 31 ************************************************************************ 32 --> 33 34 35 <helpdocument version="1.0"> 36<meta> 37<topic id="textsharedguidedata_formsxhp" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 38<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Working with Forms</title> 39<filename>/text/shared/guide/data_forms.xhp</filename> 40</topic> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id5762199"><bookmark_value>opening;forms</bookmark_value> 44<bookmark_value>forms;creating</bookmark_value> 45<bookmark_value>design view;creating forms</bookmark_value> 46</bookmark> 47<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> 48</variable></paragraph> 49<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> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Form With the Form Wizard</paragraph> 51<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> 52<list type="ordered"> 53<listitem> 54<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> 55</listitem> 56<listitem> 57<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> 58</listitem> 59<listitem> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Form</emph>.</paragraph> 61</listitem> 62</list> 63<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Form Manually</paragraph> 64<list type="ordered"> 65<listitem> 66<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> 67</listitem> 68<listitem> 69<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> 70</listitem> 71<listitem> 72<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Form in Design View</emph>.</paragraph> 73</listitem> 74</list> 75<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> 76<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> 77<section id="relatedtopics"> 78<embed href="text/shared/explorer/database/main.xhp#base"/> 79<embed href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/> 80</section> 81</body> 82</helpdocument> 83