Tutorial 2 Customizing the Appearance of a Form

If the information on a form is presented in logical buckets with visual distinction, the form appears user-friendly. There are many techniques for refining the appearance of a form.

This tutorial shows how to change some of the visual characteristics of a form to make the form more pleasing in appearance and easier to use. The background color can be used to set off groups of controls that belong together, and the label widths can be adjusted so that all fields on the form are vertically aligned.

  1. Changing the Background Colors of Panes
    Use background colors to make forms and panes more colorful, and to help users find their way through a complex form by visually grouping related controls. In this section, you learn to configure the background colors of the panes on the Capture Claim form.
  2. Changing the Label Width Property of the Panes
    With the default settings, each pane is set to Use Form Defaults to determine the Child Labels settings for the controls it contains.
  3. Previewing Finished Forms
    After you have finished all steps described in the first tutorial and tasks A and B, the Interview Witness form is displayed as shown below.