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BarTender's user interface contains menus, toolbars, and design areas to help you design and customize your items and data entry forms.

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• Template Design View

  Use the Template Design view to view and design your BarTender documents, so that you can print them exactly as you see them on the screen.

• Data Entry Form View

  Use the Data Entry Form view to customize a user-input form that enables users to enter data for the printed items at print-time.

• Specifying Ruler and Grid Settings

  Use BarTender's rulers and grid markings to help you design templates and forms, especially when positioning and/or resizing objects precisely.

• Main Menu Reference

  Use the menu options of BarTender's Main Menu to control various aspects of BarTender.

• Toolbars

  Use BarTender's toolbars to access shortcut buttons to some of BarTender's most frequently used commands.

• Toolbox

  Use the various panes of the Toolbox to create reusable objects and data sources that you can drag onto your template or data entry form, and to design layers for your template.

• Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts

  View a list of the various keyboard and mouse shortcuts you can use with BarTender.