Data Entry Form

The Main Menu bar is the horizontal bar across the top of the screen that allows you to pull down menus. It contains a list of commands to configure and use BarTender. The following menus are available:

• File. Contains options that allow you to load, save, and print the documents you create and modify using BarTender.

• Edit. Contains options that allow you to cut, copy, or delete one or more objects from the data entry form.

• View. Contains options that allow you to change the size and position at which you view the data entry form; additionally, provides easy access to the Template Design View.

• Create. Contains options that allow you to add controls to the data entry form.

• Arrange. Contains options that allow you to control the layout of objects on the data entry form.

• Administer. Contains options that allow you to control BarTender's administrative and configuration settings.

• Tools. Contains options that launch other applications in the BarTender Suite and provides access to the General Options dialog.

• Window. Contains options that allows you to define and switch between one or more additional views of a template or data entry form.

• Help. Contains options that access help and product information.

The Toolbars contain shortcut buttons to some of the most frequently used commands in BarTender. The following toolbars are available:

• Main Toolbar. Provides shortcuts to many of BarTender's most commonly used commands and dialogs in the File and Edit menus.

• View Toolbar. Provides shortcuts to alter the way you view the data entry form.

• Arrange Toolbar. Provides shortcuts to the options in BarTender's Align and Rotate dialogs.

• Text Toolbar. Provides shortcuts to the options on BarTender's Font property page.

For more information, see Showing, Hiding, and Customizing the Toolbars.

The Toolbox is a set of panes from which you can drag data entry controls and data sources to make it easier to design the data entry form. It contains the following panes:

• Controls. Provides a place for you to create data entry controls and link them to existing data sources in your template.

• Data Sources. Allows you to easily access objects and data sources in your template.

For more information, see Overview of the Toolbox.

The Data Entry Form is an editor that provides a location to design the data entry form which appears at print-time. Using the data entry form, you can position controls, as well as alter their color balance and visual effects, access important information about the size and structure of form, and gain an on-screen view of what the final form will look like when it appears.

The status bar, found at the bottom of BarTender's user interface, displays basic information about the currently selected control, or, when no controls are selected, general information about the document. When a control is selected, the status bar displays the name, position, and size of the control. If there is not a control selected on the data entry form, the status bar displays information about the document and data entry form itself, such as the printer and size of the form. For more detailed information, you can hover your mouse over the desired section of the status bar to display a tooltip.

When you hover over an icon on a toolbar or a menu item, the basic document information will be replaced with a short description of the highlighted item. This is useful in determining how a specific tool is used, or identifying the tool that corresponds to a particular icon on the toolbar.

In some cases, you may wish for BarTender to hide the status bar, so that it does not appear at the bottom of the application's user interface. To toggle the visibility of the status bar, use of the following methods:

• Open the View menu, and select Status Bar from the Toolbars submenu.

• From a toolbar's context menu, select Status Bar to show or hide the status bar in the application window.