<p class="Head1"><help:help-id value="SID_FM_SHOW_FMEXPLORER"/><help:key-word value="forms; in documents" tag="kw65950_1"/><help:key-word value="controls; in forms" tag="kw65950_10"/><help:key-word value="Form Navigator" tag="kw65950_9"/><help:link Id="65950">Form Navigator</help:link></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Click this icon to open the Form Navigator. The Form Navigator displays all forms and subforms of the current document with their respective controls.</help:help-text></p>
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<p class="Paragraph">When using several forms, the Form Navigator not only gives an overview of them but also provides various functions for editing a form.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-id value="HID_FORM_NAVIGATOR" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">In the form navigator you see a list of all created (logical) forms with the corresponding control fields.</help:help-text> You can see if a form contains control fields by the plus sign displayed before the entry. Click the plus sign to open the list of the form elements.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:key-word value="Moving Controls" tag="kw65950_8" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>You can change how the different controls are arranged by dragging and dropping them in the Navigator: Select one or more controls and drag them into another form. The description can also be edited in the Navigator by simply clicking an entry and changing the description.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you select a control with your mouse in the Form Navigator, the corresponding element is selected in the document. This way, you can easily navigate within the form.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you call the context menu of a selected entry, the Navigator offers you different functions:</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This command offers functions to add new elements to the form. These functions can only be called if a form is selected in the Navigator.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3"><help:help-id value="SID_FM_NEW_FORM" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="subform; creating one with Form Navigator" tag="kw65950_7" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Form</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">With this command you can create a new form. </help:help-text>If you select here the "Forms" entry, a new form is created in the document. To create a new <help:link Id="65955" Eid="unterformular" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">submenu</help:link> in the selected form, mark a form entry.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Creates in the selected formula a hidden control that is not visible on screen and thus is hidden from the user. A hidden control serves to include data that is transmitted together with the formula.</help:help-text> It contains additional information or clarifying text that you can specify when creating the formula via the <help:link Id="65921" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Special Properties</help:link> of the control. Select the entry of the hidden control in the Formula Navigator and select the <span class="T1">Properties</span> command.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:key-word value="controls; copying" tag="kw65950_4" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="hidden controls; copying" tag="kw65950_3" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Normally you can copy controls in the document view through the clipboard (shortcut keys <help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="MAC">(command)</help:case><help:default>(Ctrl)</help:default></help:switch>(C) for copying and <help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="MAC">(command)</help:case><help:default>(Ctrl)</help:default></help:switch>(V) for inserting). This is naturally impossible to do with hidden controls since they are not visible in the document view. However, you can copy hidden controls in the Formula Navigator by using drag & drop: drag the hidden control using the mouse while keeping <help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="MAC">(command)</help:case><help:default>(Ctrl)</help:default></help:switch> key pressed. You drop it in any formula, even the formula where the hidden control is already located.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:key-word value="controls; drag and drop" tag="kw65950_2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Drag and drop to copy controls within the same document or between documents. Open another form document and drag the hidden control from the Form Navigator into the Form Navigator of the target document. Click a visible control directly in the document, rest the mouse for a moment so that a copy of the control is added to the drag and drop clipboard, then drag the copy into the other document. If you want a copy in the same document, press Ctrl while dragging.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Deletes the selected entry.</help:help-text> This allows you to delete individual form components as well as whole forms with one mouse click.</p>
<p class="Head2">Tab order</p>
<p class="Paragraph">When a form is selected, it opens the <help:link Id="66039" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><span class="T1">Tab Order</span></help:link> dialog where the indices for focusing the control elements on the Tab key are defined.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Starts the Properties dialog for the selected entry.</help:help-text> If a formula is selected, the <help:link Id="65960" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Formula Properties</help:link> dialog opens, with a selected control of the dialog for <help:link Id="65962" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Control Properties</help:link>.</p>
