Help With Fields

[Alisun]

Hello,

I am pretty new, and am wondering if there is a way to add space between fields all at once? Everything in my database crammed together and overlapping!

I have attached a screen shot. If you can't open it, I'd be glad to email a copy to you.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Alisun

[mr_vodka]

You can select all the fields that you want spaced out at once and use the Align and Distribute features to format the fields on teh layout. To use the distribute, you can have one field be like 70 pixels away from the rest and then use the distribute feature to give spacing between teh fields.

[Raybaudi]

Hi

layout design is the more subjective thing in the FMP world !

BTW you can, while in layout mode, select all the fields with the "SELECT" tool and adjust their position at once

[SlimJim]

The field names are very long and that is why this problem has arisen - the FMP standard layout arranges the fields and their labels in two columns, fields on the right with the labels right aligned and the fields left aligned. Because of the length of your fieldnames this has failed to work correctly, if you can your first step should be to change the names of the fields so that they are not so long. If you do that then you need to design the layout to take account of the typical amount of data that will be entered into each field.

On the other hand if you want to go with the standard layout design with the existing names and labels, (using more screen space) you could select all the fields - select one of them,press Ctrl+Shift+A - and using the right arrow key move them in a block to the right until they clear the labels. Now select all the labels - select one, press Ctrl+Shift+A - and then right-click. At the bottom of the context menu you will see Arrange. Select that and align right edges. This should give you the standard layout but it will be wider than the screen. However, depending on the data you have to enter this may be OK.