Re: sliding in FM 7 not working?

On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:14:17 +1300, Helpful Harry
<helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <kfj5l3h2nrk4pdriig3qdf792enph4ulnf@xxxxxxx>, Kees <xxx@yyy>
wrote:

I want to print stickers.
..........

Sliding does work (unless there's some peculiar bug in your version
that needs an update downloaded), but it can be tricky to get working
properly.

But for what you're trying to do, Sliding isn't the answer anyway. If
you have two fields on a Layout with a space in between,
eg.
[ZipCode] [City]

then sliding the City back along the line will not remove that space,
so you'll still end up with an address like:

123 ABC Street
Yippee City

with an extra space in front of "Yippee City".

Sliding only closes up empty space in fields, not other spaces on the
Layout.

........

Thank you for your help. Now I understand what sliding actually does.
I've recreated the calculated field and now it works (don't know
why).

Kees


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