Showing text, field, or button boundaries

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Showing text, field, or button boundaries

You can show boundaries for text objects, field objects, and buttons in Layout mode. Boundaries help you easily identify, position, and align these objects while you're designing a layout.

To show text, field, or button boundaries:

In Layout mode, choose one of the following menu commands:

Choose

Boundaries appear as

View menu > Show > Text Boundaries

A thin black line around each text object

View menu > Show > Field Boundaries

A thin black line around each field object

View menu > Show > Buttons

A gray line around each button

To hide text, field, or button boundaries:

Choose the corresponding command from the Show submenu again.

Notes

These boundaries only appear in Layout mode. However, you can format objects to have borders that do appear in Browse mode and when you print the layout. For more information, see Setting auto-resize options for layout objects and Adding borders, fill, and baselines to fields.

For more information about buttons, see Using buttons with scripts.

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