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Introduction

About this manual

YourUserManualiscomposedoffourmainsections:

Introduction:Thischapterwillintroduceyoutothesoftware.

Setting Up the Application:Learnhowtosetupandcustomizesoftwaretoyourpreferences.

Designing Forms:Learnhowtocreateforms.Youshouldrefertothischapterregularlywhile

designingforms,untilyouhavecompletelyfamiliarizedyourselfwiththecommands.Byusingthe

informationcontainedinthischapter,youwillbeveryquicklyabletousethesoftwareefficiently.

Conventions used in this Manual

Textthatappearsinboldlettersreferstothenamesofthemenus,buttonsandother'clickable'things

likeOKbutton.

Textthatappearsinitalicreferstotheoptionsandconfirmingactions-likeRead only.

TextenclosedinbracketsreferstokeysfromthePCkeyboardlike<Enter>.

Variablesareenclosedinsquarebracketslike[variable].

Welcome to Power Forms

PowerFormsisasoftwarepackagethathelpsyoucreateformsforenteringdataandprintinglabels.

UsingPowerFormsyoucaneasilydesignanyformwithnoneprogrammingskillsrequired.Power

Formscanbeusedwith32-bitand64-bitWindowsoperatingsystems:Windows2000,Windows

XP,WindowsServer2003,WindowsVista,WindowsServer2008Windows7,Windows8,andWin-

dowsServer2012.

ThebasicideaofthePowerFormsistosimplifyenteringvariabledataonthelabels.Firstyouhave

todesignthelabelinNiceLabelusingthevariablesofpromptedordatabasetypeforthevariable

fieldsonthelabel.ThenyoucanusethePowerFormstocreatethesimpleuserinterfacetofillin

thevariabledataneededtoprintalabel.Thiswaytheusercannotaccidentallymodifythelabel,and

enteringthedataisgreatlysimplified.TheprocessofprintinglabelsisstillperformedbyNiceLabel

(usingDDE),althoughtheuserseesonlytheform.

Thewayofdesigningformsisveryuserfriendlyandflexible.Formscanincludedifferentfixed

(text,pictures)orvariableobjects(editfields,memofields)andactionbuttons,whichareusedto

startsomesortofaction(e.g.print,orchangetheform).

Theformshavetwomodes:thedesignmodeandtherunmode.Indesignmodeyoucancreateand

designformsandintherunmodeyoucanenterdataandprintlabels.

PowerFormshasthelogicthatsupportsdefaultvalues.Thislogicspeedsuptheworkandprevents

printinglabelswithincorrectcontents.

TheDDE(DynamicDataExchange)functionsendstheentereddatatothebasicprogramNiceLabel

thatmanagestheentireprintingprocess.

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