To customise the stub form

If you haven't already read the Forms Overview, see Tips for customising cheques for more information.

Note: An entire cheque form has two parts

An entire cheque form has two parts-the cheque form and the stub form. To customise the entire cheque form, you'll need to perform two separate tasks: customise the cheque form and customise the stub form.

  1. If it's not already displayed, open the cheque form you want to modify using the Customise window. (See To open the form in the Customise window if you need to learn how to do this.) Notice that only the fields for the cheque, not for the stub, appear in the window.
  2. From the Form menu, choose the type of stub you want to customise. When you select a stub type, the cheque form's fields will be dimmed, and the appropriate stub form's fields will appear at the bottom of the Customise window. (You may need to use the scroll bar on the right side of the Customise window to view the stub's fields.)

Note: Getting back to the cheque form

When a stub form is displayed in the Customise window, the fields and other items that make up the cheque form aren't accessible. If you need to make changes to the cheque form again, choose Cheque Layout from the Form menu.

  1. After you've selected the stub you want, customising the stub form is the same process as customising any other form: you can move, activate and inactivate data fields and add, remove and change the characteristics of text fields, lines, rectangles and pictures.

  1. If you want, you can make changes to all four available cheque stubs at this time; however, the changes you make to one stub won't be made to the other stubs. You'll have to change each stub individually if you want the same change to apply to all four stubs.

Idea: Preview your forms

Remember that you can preview the changes you make at any time by clicking the Preview button in the Customise window.

  1. When you're finished making changes to the cheque form and stub forms, click Save Form in the Customise window. If you're making changes to a custom layout, all changes you've made will be saved. If you're working with one of MYOB Accounting Plus's predefined form layouts, the Save As window appears; enter a name and description for your new form layout and click OK.

Idea: Don't waste your cheque forms!

After you're satisfied with the changes you've made to your cheques and cheque stubs, consider printing some alignment cheques to verify whether the changes you made print correctly on your printer. Print alignment cheques by clicking the Print Alignment Cheque(s) button in the Forms Selection window.

When you're printing alignment cheques, though, don't waste the valuable preprinted paper forms you normally use for cheques-use plain paper instead. You should be able to easily compare the alignment text on the plain paper with a preprinted form.