To create a soft return, place the insertion point where you want the
soft return and press Shift+Return. Text to the right of the soft return
moves to the next line.
To view soft return symbols: Choose Layout > Display >
Show Text Invisibles. To hide soft return symbols, choose Layout >
Display > Hide Text Invisibles.
Using Text Form Field tool
The Text Form Field tool is ideal for numerous types of forms and
documents. This feature is designed to assist you when you need to
perform repetitive text entry tasks.
To navigate inside a form, you need to first create the Text Form
boxes and then place them in the locations that you desire. After
placement, you can quickly move the cursor to each Text Form box
by using the Tab key. All text that is entered into the Text Form box
may be formatted in the same manner as it is in the regular Text box.
The Tab order of the Text Form boxes may be arranged and edited
using the features of the Document Layout palette (see Using the
Document Layout palette, page 12.132 for more detail regarding the
Document Layout palette).
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Create your form.
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With the Text tools palette visible, click on the Form Text tool
icon (A).
3
Click and drag in the document location to create Form Text
boxes.
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You may now jump to each form text object by pressing the
Tab key.
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You may Tab in reverse order by pressing Shift-Tab.
To better track the Form Text boxes, we suggest that you apply a
name to each box. Please see Data tab settings, page 16.279 for
more information on naming objects in Canvas.
Note: You can take a regular text box and convert it to a Form text
box. To do this, you need to first select the text box and then either
right-click (Windows) or Control- click (Macintosh). This calls up
the context-sensitive menu. At this point, you can select Convert to
Form Text. You may also convert Form Text objects to Normal text
by applying the same process to a Form Text box.
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