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Introduction
About this manual
YourUserManualiscomposedoffourmainsections:
Introduction:Thischapterwillintroduceyoutothesoftware.
Setting Up the Application:Learnhowtosetupandcustomizesoftwaretoyourpreferences.
Designing Forms:Learnhowtocreateforms.Youshouldrefertothischapterregularlywhile
designingforms,untilyouhavecompletelyfamiliarizedyourselfwiththecommands.Byusingthe
informationcontainedinthischapter,youwillbeveryquicklyabletousethesoftwareefficiently.
Conventions used in this Manual
Textthatappearsinboldlettersreferstothenamesofthemenus,buttonsandother'clickable'things
likeOKbutton.
Textthatappearsinitalicreferstotheoptionsandconfirmingactions-likeRead only.
TextenclosedinbracketsreferstokeysfromthePCkeyboardlike<Enter>.
Variablesareenclosedinsquarebracketslike[variable].
Welcome to Power Forms
PowerFormsisasoftwarepackagethathelpsyoucreateformsforenteringdataandprintinglabels.
UsingPowerFormsyoucaneasilydesignanyformwithnoneprogrammingskillsrequired.Power
Formscanbeusedwith32-bitand64-bitWindowsoperatingsystems:Windows2000,Windows
XP,WindowsServer2003,WindowsVista,WindowsServer2008Windows7,Windows8,andWin-
dowsServer2012.
ThebasicideaofthePowerFormsistosimplifyenteringvariabledataonthelabels.Firstyouhave
todesignthelabelinNiceLabelusingthevariablesofpromptedordatabasetypeforthevariable
fieldsonthelabel.ThenyoucanusethePowerFormstocreatethesimpleuserinterfacetofillin
thevariabledataneededtoprintalabel.Thiswaytheusercannotaccidentallymodifythelabel,and
enteringthedataisgreatlysimplified.TheprocessofprintinglabelsisstillperformedbyNiceLabel
(usingDDE),althoughtheuserseesonlytheform.
Thewayofdesigningformsisveryuserfriendlyandflexible.Formscanincludedifferentfixed
(text,pictures)orvariableobjects(editfields,memofields)andactionbuttons,whichareusedto
startsomesortofaction(e.g.print,orchangetheform).
Theformshavetwomodes:thedesignmodeandtherunmode.Indesignmodeyoucancreateand
designformsandintherunmodeyoucanenterdataandprintlabels.
PowerFormshasthelogicthatsupportsdefaultvalues.Thislogicspeedsuptheworkandprevents
printinglabelswithincorrectcontents.
TheDDE(DynamicDataExchange)functionsendstheentereddatatothebasicprogramNiceLabel
thatmanagestheentireprintingprocess.
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