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Setting object properties

When you right-click an object in 13-3 Report Writer or 13-5 Form/Report Page Design, you can set its properties.

The Object Properties dialog box is specialized for each type of object:

Text Object Properties
Image Object Properties
Lines and Boxes Object Properties
Field Object Properties
Multiple Object Properties

Text object properties
Property	You can:
Name	Select a font to apply to the entire text box.
Size	Select a font size.
Bold	Format all text in the text box as bold.
Underline	Format all text in the text box as underlined.
Italic	Format all text in the text box as italic.
Bold Italic	Format all text in the text box as bold italic.
Text	Edit the text or field that appears in the text box.
Characters	Set the total number of characters that appear in the text box.
Page	Specify on which page the object appears In 13-5 Form/Report Page Design.
Top	Specify the absolute position for the top of the object.
Left	Specify the absolute position for the left side of the object.
Forecolor	Select the color you want to use for the text.
Backcolor	Select the color you want to use behind the text in the text box.
Alignment	Align text to the left or right margin of the text box.

Image properties
Property	You can:
Page	Specify on which page the object appears In 13-5 Form/Report Page Design.
Top	Specify the absolute position for the top of the image.
Left	Specify the absolute position for the left side of the image.
Width	Specify the width of the image.
Height	Specify the height of the image.
Image	Specify the path of the image you want to display in the picture box. To select the image, click the detail button.

Lines and boxes properties
Property	You can:
Line width	Specify the thickness of a drawing line.
Line type	Specify the type of drawing line you want (Solid, Dash, Dot, Dot-Dash).
Forecolor	Select the color you want to use for the drawing line.
Backcolor	Select the color you want to use to fill the interior area of a box.
Page	Specify on which page the line/box appears In 13-5 Form/Report Page Design.
Top	Specify the absolute position for the top of the line/box.
Left	Specify the absolute position for the left side of the line/box.
Width	Specify the width of the line/box. This property does not appear for vertical lines.
Height	Specify the height of the line/box. This property does not appear for horizontal lines.

Field object properties
Property	You can:
Name	Select a font to apply to the entire text box.
Size	Select a font size.
Bold	Format all text in the text box as bold.
Underline	Format all text in the text box as underlined.
Page	Specify on which page the object appears In 13-5 Form/Report Page Design.
Top	Specify the absolute position for the top of the text box.
Left	Specify the absolute position for the left side of the text box.
Width	Specify the width of the text box.
Height	Specify the height of the text box.
Forecolor	Select the color you want to use for the text.
Backcolor	Select the color you want to use behind the text in the text box.
Format	For special number and date formatting, select the desired format from the list.
Alignment	Align text to the left or right margin of the text box.
Characters	Set the total number of characters that appear in the text box.
Do not print line if the returned value for this field is zero/blank	Hide a line if the field is blank or returns a zero. Suppose you create a detail line in a report to print the account number, account name, and the account balance. However, you do not want to include the account on the report if it does not contain a balance. For the balance field, you display the object properties and select the Do not print line if the value returned for this field is zero/blank checkbox. Now, when you generate the report, accounts with no balance or a zero balance do not appear on the report.
Print a zero if the value is zero (otherwise will print a blank space)	Display "0" or "0.00" (depending on the format choice for a zero amount) if the field has no value.
Do not total this field	Place fields on a group band that is not totaled on the report. For example, for a report that includes a calculated percentage value on each detail line, you don't want the total of all the percentage amounts printed on the subtotal and total lines.

Set Properties for All Selected Objects

Setting object properties
Property	You can:
Name	Select a font to apply to all the selected text objects.
Size	Select a font size.
Bold	Format all the selected text objects as bold.
Underline	Format all the selected text objects as underlined.
Italic	Format all the selected text objects as italic.
ItalicBold Italic	Format all the selected text objects as bold italic.
Forecolor	Select the color you want to use for all the selected objects.
Backcolor	Select the color you want to use for all the selected objects.
Line width	Specify the thickness of a line for all the selected line/box objects.
Line type	Specify the type of line you want (Solid, Dash, Dot, Dot-Dash) for all the selected line/box objects.
Alignment	Align text to the left or right margin of the text boxes for all the selected text objects.