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Working with the Document Format Screen
When you create a new document format or open an existing document format, the format is displayed in the Document Format Entry screen. There are three main components to the Document Formats screen as follows:
the Components
Document Layout
Property Panel
The Components List and Property Grid panel displays information about the document format as a whole and the layout component that is currently selected.
You can toggle the display of the Components List and Property Panel by clicking the arrows displayed at the header of each section (shown below).
For example, you can hide the panel to maximize the amount of space available on the screen to display the document layout.
The document layout section of the screen displays the layout components of the document format that is currently displayed and the relative position and size of each component. Each component is displayed as a shape on a page and displays a name to identify the purpose of the component.
To help you to position, size and align components accurately, you can display a layout grid within the document layout, as is shown in the example above. The display of the layout grid can be toggled via the Show Grid Lines option that is displayed at the top of the Components List and Property Grid panel. The grid interval can be set via the Document Format Settings screen (for more information, see below).
Document Format Settings
The document format settings allow you to do the following:
define the grid interval for the layout grid that can be displayed within the document layout enable snapping of layout components to the layout grid to aid aligning of layout components
define settings that determine how invoices and credit notes are previewed
define settings that determine how supplementary documents are previewed
The Document Format Settings are configured via the Document Format Settings pop up screen. To display the Document Format Settings screen, click Settings in the top right-hand corner of the Document Format screen.
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