### Menu Bar for the Form and Reporting Editors

File menu

File | New - Creates a blank template or form.

File | Open - Opens a previously stored report template file or form.

File | Close - Closes the template editor or form.

File | Save As - Saves the current template or form with a new file name. See "Saving a Template or Form to an Earlier Version"

File | Edit / File | Run - Lets you toggle between the editor's two modes: Edit Mode and Run Mode. Run mode lets you "run" or test a form. Edit mode lets you modify a template or form. (Run mode only works with the Form Editor; it does exist in the Report or Label template editors.)

File | Exit - Exits PC-DMIS. If you have unsaved changes, PC-DMIS will display a message box asking if you would like to save them.

Edit menu

Edit | Layout | Align Objects, Space Evenly, Center in View, Make Same Size - These submenus lets you layout, align, and space objects in the editor. See the "Layout Bar" for additional information.

Edit | Layout | Properties - Displays the property sheet for the currently selected object. If no object is selected, this displays the property sheet for the editing area (called a "Section" or "The Frame/View"). See "Property Sheet" and "About Sections".

Edit | Layout | Check Mnemonics - This menu item ensures that any shortcut keys using the ALT key plus a letter are unique on form or template items that have a text display (such as buttons).

To define a shortcut key for a form or dialog box control, type an ampersand symbol (&) before the character. For example, a button with the text label of "&Continue", would look like "Continue" on the form and would be accessible with ALT + C.

Edit | Layout | Grid Settings - Displays the Grid Settings dialog box. This dialog box lets you display or hide a grid of points on your layout's background. See "Working with the Grid".

Edit | Layout | Objects - Displays the Object Sheet dialog box. Use this dialog box to view or select the objects in the Form and to set their tab order. See "Object Sheet". (Only available in the Form Editor.)

Object Sheet dialog box

Edit | Order - This submenu lets you move objects behind or in front of other objects that overlap each other.

Edit | Undo - Lets you undo the last action taken in the editor.

Edit | Redo - Lets you redo the last undone action.

Edit | Cut - Cuts the object and stores it for pasting.

Edit | Copy - Copies the object and stores it for pasting.

Edit | Delete - Deletes the selected objects.

Edit | Paste - Pastes the cut or copied object. If from a copied object this often this pastes the object right on top of the copied object, so you will need to drag it to a new location or else it will overlap the object from which it was copied.

Edit | Paste Special - This differs from the standard Paste menu item since it allows you to maintain a link between the pasted item and the source from which it was copied so that if the source changes, the pasted item will also get updated. For Example:

Suppose you want to place a Microsoft Excel chart object in your Hyper Report and you want to keep the chart's data in synch with the data from the Excel file. To do this:

1. In the Microsoft Excel file, copy the chart object.

2. Access your template or form.

3. Select Edit | Paste Special. The Paste Special dialog box appears.

4. Select the Past Link option.

5. Click OK. The chart object appears in your template or form.

Now, if you make changes to the data for your chart object in your Excel file, PC-DMIS will update the chart object in the report or form.

Edit | Set Tab Order - This lets you determine the objects that get selected when a user presses TAB to cycle through objects in Run Mode. (This only works in the Forms Editor.)

Edit | User Assigned Properties - Accesses the User Assigned Properties dialog box, allowing you to manage all your user assigned properties at once. See "Working with User Definable Properties". (Only available in the Report Template Editor.)

View menu

View | Graphics Display Window, Edit Window, Preview Window, Form Editor, Marked Sets Window, Basic Script Editor, Inspection Report, Probe Readouts, Probe Toolbox - Shows or hides these PC-DMIS windows or editors. Most of the time these do not serve any purpose when working in the editor and you can hide them.

View | Object Bar - Displays the editor's Object Bar. See "Object Bar".

View | Layout Bar - Displays the editor's Layout Bar. See "Layout Bar".

View | Font Bar - Displays the editor's Font Bar. See "Font Bar"

View | Ruler Bars - Displays the rulers on the top and left sides of the editor. See "Toggle Ruler"

View | Snap Points - Displays the "snap points" for any of the objects in the editor. See "View Snap Points"

View | Route - This only functions with snap points. On complex pages with a lot of objects, you may find it useful to use the this menu option to see the chain of objects connected to the currently selected object via snap points. This menu option selects all objects connected in some way by snap points to the currently selected object. (Only available in the Form Editor.)

Windows menu

This menu lets you perform standard window manipulations with any of the windows in PC-DMIS. See the "Navigating and Displaying Multiple Windows" chapter.

Help menu

Help | Index - Accesses the PC-DMIS Help file.

Help | Using Help - Displays a topic about using the Help file.

Help | About PC-DMIS - Displays the About PC-DMIS dialog box, showing information about your version of PC-DMIS.