Guidlines aren't 'magentic'

[hangmeup]

I am relatively new to Crystal v7 and was wondering if there is some trick to get fields to stick to the guidelines. I have already set my grid size to .011 as suggested in an earlier post, which did help a little.

Thanks!

Tricia

 

[synapsevampire]

What does stick mean?

That's a very old version, but under File->Options you should have a choice of Snap To Grid which will help align you to the grid.

Perhaps that will help you. I tend to use guidelines, I turn on the guidelines, rulers in design (click in the ruler to create a guideline, which fields will snap to and the edge will turn red when you're on it), and I turn on the grid.

-k

 

[GJParker]

if a field hasn't got a guideline for some reason, then you must move the field to a guideline to attach it (make it stick as you say) if you do it the other way round and move the guideline to a field, the field will not be attached.

HTH

Gary Parker
Systems Support Analyst
Manchester, England

 

[hangmeup]

Thanks for the tips! The red markers are finally explained! I still have a problem with certain fields, however. It seems the fields I have manually resized will not attach no matter what.

I know this is an old version, but it's the only tool I can use to extract data from my 16-bit acccounting system!

Thanks again!

Tricia

 

[lyanch]

Sometimes you need to resize the field to get it to snap to the guidelines.. make it small.. release the sizing and then expand it back to the guideline.. it should automatically snap to the grid.

Lisa