Selecting controls in the Form painter

The Form painter provides several ways for you to select controls to act on. You can select multiple controls and can perform some actions on all the selected controls as a unit. For example, you can move all of them or change the fonts used to display text for all of them.

StepsTo select one control in a form:

  1. Click it.

    The control displays with handles on it. Previously selected controls are no longer selected.

StepsTo select neighboring multiple controls in a form:

  1. Press and hold the left mouse button at one corner of the neighboring controls.

  2. Drag the mouse over the controls you want to select.

    InfoMaker displays a bounding box.

  3. Release the mouse button.

    All the controls in the region are selected.

StepsTo select non-neighboring multiple controls in a form:

  1. Click the first control.

  2. Press and hold the Ctrl key and click additional controls.

    All the controls are selected.

StepsTo select all controls in a form:

  1. Select Edit>Select All from the menu bar.