Data Field Alignment

[Unregistered]

I'm designing my own invoice forms and would align the Data Field of a group object to be in the center of a column. I see where there is an option for "Title Alignment" but none for the data field. As it is now the data fields of the invoice are jammed right up against the colunm edges. How can I change this to the center? Thanks.

[Marka]

This is one of the largest reasons why I have started to create all my forms using Crystal Report Writer. I have much greater control and designing ease than I do with Peachtree's form designer.

I played around with the form designer for a little while now and realize that if you are in group mode then alignment will not be possible for the particular fields other than just the titles of the fileds. If you insert individual data fields and create your own rows then you do have the ability to center the data. Otherwise the data will be right or left justified against the column lines. Inserting the individual data rows and then fields will give you much more flexibility but at the start take more of your time to create the individual data rows. Once you create your data fields/ rows then you can use the line tool to draw the column line and place it exactly where you want to. This is what I had to do with a picking ticket. Spent hours doing this and never really was able to create the picking ticket I wanted to. I found that creating one in crystal was so much easier and it also gave me the ability to supress the shipped complete lines in my sales orders. Since peachtree does not supress lines that have been shipped when we print a backorder it will print all previously shipped lines. This means if we have a backorder with only one item backordered but the original order had 90 line items (which is not unusal for our business) the backorder would print three pages just to backorder one line item. This is what encouraged me to create my own forms and say the hell with peachtree's form designer.

So as I said i believe the only way you can center the data in the colum is by making your own rows/columns.

Mark

[Unregistered]

Thanks for your reply. Your "solution" is what I was going to do next but as I am a new user I still held out some hope!

Thanks again

[Marka]

You are very welcome. I wish there was an easier way to do it but don't know of one to tell you.

Mark