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- FORMGEN II TUTORIAL
-
- This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a basic invoice. You will
- learn the main keys (functions) used in making a form, and will see how little
- effort it really takes to create a form! To begin, start up FormGen II.
-
- 1) First we will create a border to frame the invoice. Hold the ALT key
- down and press the letter B. From the prompt at the bottom, select
- a border that has double lines (2), is 80 columns wide, and 60 rows
- long.
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- 2) Move the cursor to r2 (row), and c56 (column). Press F1 (to draw a single
- line), and using the right arrow key, move the cursor over to c73. Now
- move the cursor down to r4, across to column 56, and up to row 2. To
- finish off the box, move the cursor one space to the right. Press F1
- again to turn off the single line draw.
-
- 3) Create another box at r5, c56. This box will go over to c73 again, and
- down to row 7.
-
- 4) Now we are going to draw a few lines to divide up the form. Move the
- cursor down to r18. Press ALT F1. A single line will appear. Using the
- CTRL and ALT keys together with F1 and F2 causes automatic drawing of
- vertical and horizontal lines. When pressed, a line is drawn from the
- cursor location, extending in both directions until it meets another line.
-
- 5) Draw a double line at r20, (ALT F2); a single at r22 (ALT F1), and
- another double at r28 (ALT F2)
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- 7) Now we will divide these lines up into the standard invoice sections.
- Placing the cursor on r22 and c7, press CTRL F1 to draw a vertical line.
- Do the same at columns 16, 53, and 66.
-
- 8) With your cursor still on c66, move it down to row 28. Press F1 to turn
- single line draw on, and move the cursor down to r34, across to c80, and
- back to c79. Press F1 to turn single line draw off.
-
- 9) We need to add some words to our invoice! Move the cursor to r21, c2 and
- type QTY. Then move to c9, and type ITEM. At c27 type DESCRIPTION, and
- at c56 type PRICE. Finally type TOTAL at c69.
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- 10) Move the cursor to c56, r29, and type SUB TOTAL. At c56, r31 type TAX,
- and at c56, r33 type TOTAL.
-
- 11) Move the cursor to r3, c57. We are going to add a title to our date and
- invoice boxes. Since the boxes are small, we need to have the text
- appear in the upper left corner. This is called "floating text". Press
- CTRL O (the letter). This will leave a symbol on your screen to
- indicate that the following text is "floating". Type the word INV #.
- Move to r6 and, c57, and press CTRL 0, and type DATE.
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- 12) Move the cursor to r3, and c27, and press ALT 6. Then type INVOICE.
-
- 13) Move the cursor to row 37, and press ALT D. ALT D is the key used to
- delete a row. ALT I will insert a row. Press ALT D until the lower
- border appear on row 38.
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- 14) CONGRATULATIONS! The form is finished! You can add more to it, or
- save it by pressing F9, selecting (1) and calling it INV.