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Use guides, arrange, align, group, and lock layout objects

Use guides, arrange, align, group, and lock layout objects - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Use guides, arrange, align, group, and lock layout objects

- [Voiceover] When you're designing your layouts for your users, you want to make sure that you're not distracting them in any way. And that sometimes requires an obsessive level of attention to detail, but the good news is FileMaker has all sorts of tools to allow you to be able to do precision design when you're in layout mode. Now, layout objects are the building blocks of layouts. Everything you place on a layout, like a field, or a button, or a label, or a portal, any of these things are considered objects and all objects have particular attributes that you can manipulate. Now you must be in layout mode be able to do anything to a layout. So why don't we start there first? And in layout mode you can do things like group any combination of objects together so that you can edit or move them, you can change the stack in order of objects and get different effects when objects overlap. All of these tools are going to be found in your Inspector. You'll notice that we have four…

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