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**************************** FORM Executor Help ******************************
The form executor is used to fill in forms and/or print them. You can print
to your printer or to a file if your printer is unavailable. The contents of
all form fields can be saved to a file. Likewise, you can load all the form
fields from a file. This is handy for complicated forms with many input
fields or to review how previous forms such as invoices were filled out. The
form executor also handles such features as word wrap, field justify, look-up,
and math operations.
Your form appears on lines 2 through 25 of your display. The first line
displays "EXEC:" followed by the form name, cursor position, and field number
(if the cursor is in a field). An "Ins Mode" appears on the first line if you
are in insert mode meaning characters will be inserted at the cursor as you
type instead of replacing existing ones.
ESC - Exit Form Execute: Terminates form execution. Two consecutive
pushes of this key are required.
F1 - Help: Displays on-screen help. Basic help information is shown
first. Pressing F1 a second time provides detailed generic help.
Pressing F2 instead causes Form Master to display a custom help file
for your form, if available.
F2 - Restore Form: Restores the form back to when the form executor was
started, ready to be filled in. The only difference is the form
number will have been incremented if you had printed the form, and
you will have a new date and time if these automatically fill in.
F3 - Go to Next/Prev Page: This is available on multi-page forms only.
A pop-up menu appears allowing you to switch to the next or previous
page. Pressing F1 switches to the previous page and F3 to the next.
Note: Control-PgDn also switches you to the next page and
control-PgUp the previous page.
F4 - Field Look-up: Those fields defined for look up are processed.
Their field contents are compared against look up files. In each
case one or more fields may be replaced with information from these
files.
F4 processes all look-up fields in your form in one step. To look-
up the field that the cursor is currently in, use Alt-F.
F5 - Temporarily Go To DOS: Runs a DOS shell and you receive a DOS
prompt. Use this to perform DOS functions such as DIR, TYPE, COPY,
etc., or even to run another program. To return to the form
executor enter EXIT at a DOS prompt.
F6 - Perform Math: Performs math operations on numbers taken from
specified fields. Results can be placed into one or more fields.
F7 - Load fields from an edit file: All the fields on your form are
filled in using lines from a file of your choice. This function is
used to re-load entries saved earlier with F8.
After pressing F7, a "Load fields" pop-up menu appears. Enter a
file name and press F1 to continue. Alternately, a directory
listing can be displayed by entering a name containing the wild
character "*". For instance, entering "*.SAV" causes all files
ending in ".SAV" to be displayed. Then the "Load fields" pop-up
menu appears again.
To load the form fields again, press F7. The "Load fields" pop-up
menu now shows a new option. You can now use F10 to continue
reading from the current load file; or you can specify a new load
file and press F1. (Alt-L performs the same function as the F7-F10
combination in one step.)
F8 - Save fields to an edit file: Saves your form's fields for later
use. Use this option to save your form entries if you would like to
use them again (F7), or to make a record of what you typed.
After pressing F8, a "Save fields" pop-up menu appears. Enter a
file name and press F1 to continue. Form Master checks for the
existence of this file. If it is a new file, you are prompted to
press F8 to create it. If the file exists, a pop-up menu allows you
to append (add to the end) to the file or replace it. Alternately,
a directory listing can be displayed by entering a name containing
the wild character "*". For instance, entering "*.SAV" causes all
files ending in ".SAV" to be displayed. Then the "Save fields" pop-
up menu appears again.
Later, after modify the form fields, use F8 to save the form fields
again. The "Save fields" pop-up menu now shows a new option. You
can now use F10 to append to the current save file, or you can
specify a new save file and press F1. (Alt-S performs the same
function as the F8-F10 combination in one step.)
F9 - Print to a file: A "Print to a file" pop-up menu appears showing
the current printer configuration. Enter the name of a file to
print to. You can also change the default number of copies to
print.
Printing to a file is useful if your printer is not available. To
send the contents of this file to your printer, use the DOS copy
command (i.e., COPY filename PRN).
F10 - Print to your printer: A "Print form" pop-up menu appears showing
the current printer configuration. The default number of copies to
print may be changed before printing.
Note: The form sequence number is incremented by one each time the form is
printed.
Other Form Executor Features
Tab Go to beginning of next input field.
Return Go to beginning of next input field, or in the case
of a wrapping field, go to the wrap-to field
BackTab [Shift-Tab] Go to beginning of previous input field.
Home Move cursor to row 1 and column 1.
End Move cursor to the last row and column.
PgUp Move form down 23 lines.
PgDn Move form up 23 lines.
Control PgUp Switch to the previous form page (multi-page forms)
Control PgDn Switch to the next form page (multi-page forms)
Insert Toggle between insert and overwrite text.
Delete Delete character in the input field at cursor.
Control Return Delete characters from cursor position to the
end of the field.
Alt-F Perform look-up for the field the cursor is currently
in.
Alt-L Load form fields again from currently open load file.
This is the same as an F7, F10 combination.
Alt-S Save form fields and append them to the currently
open save file. This is the same as an F8, F10
combination.