Set Properties for New Edit Fields

You can specify the default properties that will be used each time you create an edit field in a HotDocs form. You can control font sizes, text alignment and spacing, and field margins.

To set the properties for all new edit fields

  1. At the HotDocs library, click the Options button. The HotDocs Options dialog box appears.
  2. Double-click the Form Documents folder. The folder expands to show several subfolders.
  3. Open the Properties for New Fields folder. The window changes to show options that control how edit fields appear.
  4. Make changes in the Edit Fields group, based on information in the following table:
To Do This
Set font properties for text in edit fields Click Font and make your changes at the Font dialog box.
Set the horizontal alignment for text in edit fields At the Horizontal alignment drop-down list, select Left, Right, Center, or Justified.
Set the vertical alignment for text in edit fields At the Vertical alignment drop-down list, select Left, Right, Center, or Justified.

Vertical alignment is only apparent in multiple-line fields.
Align the text in multi-line fields with the top border of the field Select Set to Top for multi-line fields.
Change the distance between lines of text in a multiple-line field At the Lines per inch field, type a number (or click the up or down arrows to select a number).
Keep the user from manually entering multiple lines of text in a single-line answer field Select Max lines 1 for single-line fields.
Changes the distance between the text and the edges of the field At the Margins group, type a number (or click the up or down arrows to select a number) for the left, right, top, and bottom margins.

The changes you make are not applied to existing fields. The changes won't take effect until you create a new field. To change the appearance of existing edit fields, right-click on a field in the form and select Field Properties from the shortcut menu.

Some changes you make to these edit field properties may not affect specific fields because of settings assigned to these fields. For example, if the Max Lines setting for a field is set to 1, the Lines per inch property will have no effect—this property only affects multiple lines of text, but the Max lines setting limits the field to one line of text.

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