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To insert a field, place your cursor where you would like the text field or checkbox to go and right-click the mouse. To insert a field, hover over Insert Fields and select Text Entry Field. To insert a checkbox, hover over Insert Fields and select Checkbox Field. Either way you’ll be asked to give the field a name. You may type a custom name if you wish, but all fields can have the same name.

 

A field is bracketed  by little red symbols << >>. These symbols disappear during report writing.  Text fields automatically expand as you type.  You might consider using tab stops and the underline attribute to underline text fields.  But again, a text field will expand dynamically should the report writer insert more text into the field that was allocated space-wise which might compromise the form layout.  To help prevent this, you might consider using tables in the design so that the text would wrap rather than push other items to the right.