Text Box for Letters!

[Wade]

OK, please humor me, I own a sign shop and have worked in filemaker for about 4 years. I am not a FM developer!

This year I finally got everyone to go along with the idea of using filemaker for all paper in our shop and to my surprise it is going very well!

I do have a couple of things I can't seem to get to work(or i don't understand!)

I made a database to write letters out of, that can be tagged with an order number so we can find them later.

How do you set up a text field for multiple pages? If you set it up for 1 page then they can only type one page. How do I know how many pages they are going to type? Do I just extend the text field for as many pages as I can and hope that it is enough pages?

Seems like there should be some sort of text flow option I am missing.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Wade

[SteveB]

Text fields are not limited to their physical size on a layout. I believe fields are limited to 64K bytes of text. If you only want to display a limited amount of text on a layout, and the field contains more, you can add a scroll bar to the field (Field Format options.

You can also make the field extend over a multi-page layout, and then use "Sliding/Printing" under the Format menu to remove the bottom part of the field that is empty.