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To insert a field, place your cursor where you would like the text field, checkbox field or picklist field to go and right-click the mouse to select Insert > Form Entry Field, then select the field type you want to add. Hint: Use the Custom Toolbar to streamline adding multiple fields.

 

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.

 

Multiple text fields in a section of a form.

 

As text started to get too long, notice how the form layout is compromised since the layout was not using tables.

 

Here we added each label and its text field into their own table cells, along with all the checkboxes in one table cell.  This is a 4x2 table, the 2nd row adding the text caption for the name.  Notice now that the additional text simply wraps down, maintaining the form structure.