I am new to Macs and I want to know if there is a way to correct the overlapping of text.  In Windows, when the end of a field label, text box, etc. was reached, the text would wrap to the next line like a normal document does.  Since I started using a Mac I am getting overlapping instead of wrapping.  Is this a Mac issue or a FM issue?  Is there any way to fix it?

Overlap.tiff

I think we need to see the file or at least find our more about it.

 

Your data looks like a formula? Is this a calculation field?

 

Is this a file your are creating on a Mac? or one that you created in windows? Was it created in an earlier version and are migrating?

 

and NO, its not a Mac thing or a FileMaker thing.

Edited May 14, 201312 yr by Lee Smith
added some info

That was a Merge field in Layout mode.

 

The file has existed for some time and was created on a Mac.  It appears to have been around since 2008.  I am using FMA 11 and am not migrating.  Unfortunately I have not received permission to upload the file.

 

 

It does it when I just create at text box and start typing.  This only happens in FileMaker (so far).  I have to push Enter 18 times to get the next line to move down far enough to look normal.  The entire text box is formatted to 18 pt. font & plain text.

 

I created a new local file and the text wrapping performs fine.  Could there be something corrupt in the hosted file that would cause the overlapping?

IIUC, either the field isn' large enough, or the text needs to be resized. 

 

To resize the text box, just grab a handle in layout mode. To resize the text, select the lead < or the whole block and select he desired font size.

Can you recreate this in a different file, i.e. make a mock up of your file, and then attach that to a reply?

A coworker figured it out for me.

Inspector>Appearance Tab>Paragraph>Line Spacing

 

Height of line units was set to 0.  Changed to 1 and it fixed it.

 

I can't believe I've never run into this before.

 

Thanks for your help.