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Adjusting form elements in Layout view

Adjusting form elements in Layout view

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Adjusting form elements in Layout view

- [Narrator] The one click method of generating a form got us started by placing text boxes for all of our table fields into a single form that we called guest check-ins. Let's go ahead and open that up in form view. When it did its layout, it put everything into this single column here, and made the column for the data really, really wide. We can start to modify the way our form looks by switching our view into something called layout view. To do that, I'll come over here on the home tab, and in the view section I'll just click the top portion of the view button. That'll toggle us back and forth between form view, where we were working with data, and layout view, which is the view I'm in now. Now you might not notice much of a change. We do have this dotted border around all of our elements, and you can see the different cells are lighting up when I click on them now. The biggest indicator that we're in our layout view right now, is that we have now three contextual tabs called form…

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