Fundamentals of Caere OmniForm

Objectives

This course is designed for anyone who needs to understand the fundamental features and uses of OmniForm as a forms design tool.


Pre-requisites:

None other than a working knowledge of Windows or previous attendance on the Introduction to Windows course.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Starting points


- The capabilities of OmniForm
- Starting OmniForm
- Default Settings; General Settings, Shared Forms, Languages


Scanning a Form


- Preparing the Form
- Scanning & recognizing a page


OmniForm Toolbars


- Standard Toolbar
- Font/Text Toolbar
- Arrange Toolbar
- Drawing Toolbar


Defining Fields


- Text and Fill Text Fields
- Comb Fields
- Table Objects
- Calculations in a Table
- Check Boxes
- Circle text objects
- Fill graphic objects
- Formatting fields with horizontal and vertical alignment






Scrapbooks


- The use and capabilities of Scrapbooks


Field Order


- Understanding and determining field order


Fill in Forms


- Using the Toolbar
- Filling in a Form


OmniForm Database capabilities


- Exporting and Importing
- Further Database Functions
- Copying records
- Deleting records
- Searching records
- Sorting records