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Modifying Layouts / Rectangle & Other Tools pt. 2




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And something that's been bugging me is this Field Labels. So what we can do is remember that these Field Labels are really just Text Blocks that FileMaker made for you. So what's bugging me is this says Name underscore first, well we don't have to keep it Name underscore first, we can call it First Name. And that will help the users understand it's easier to read. You know even on company we should make it a capital C and Last Name. And then we'll do Address 1 and I'll even copy that to the Clipboard with the keyboard commands and change that to a 2, make things quick for yourself. Learn the little trick so you can make things happen very quickly. You know 2 clicks gets you in there. Now I can change this to Postal Code or Zip Code or whatever I want, doesn't matter, doesn't have to be the same as what you have in Manage Database. Here we go, change that, change that one and we can make this all caps out here or you can even call it Date of Birth if you want. And then we'll change this to Category. And so that's starting to look better, just all uniform, easier to read and it just looks much better. And we could do the same thing over here but before we leave, before we go to List View and change that, you may want to change this to a different size. Right not it's a 10 point, maybe you like that, maybe you don't like the bold. I'm just thinking it doesn't look quite the way I want it to, so I'm going to take the bolding off. And I think for me, that looks a little bit better, easier to read, not quite in your face. Let's go over here, we'll select these over here and we'll make them not bold, in fact we can do it this way, now they're not bold, I think I'll underline these. I like an underline for a Header when you've got these Headers for this List View. So we'll go and choose Underlining there, then we'll change each one of these. So we'll choose First Name and we'll do Last Name and then we'll do Phone, get the O in there, almost done, City and then State. So let's take a look at that in Browse Mode and see how it looks, it's actually starting to look pretty good. We switch over to Form View, you'll see it looks pretty good here as well. So I'm getting pretty happy with this, it's starting to look somewhat professional, it's not quite what we'll do in the Intermediate Tutorial when we get in Photoshop and stuff like that but it is starting to look well organized, neatly laid out and you can be proud of this just because it's organized well.

Tutorial Information

Course: FileMaker Pro 10: Beginner
Author: John Mark Osborne
SKU: 33925
ISBN: 1-935320-18-1
Release Date: 2009-01-05
Duration: 15 hrs / 172 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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