2.5 Aligning Parts

It is likely that the Static text and Entry field parts are not aligned with each other. Let's now align these parts.

Follow these steps:

  1. Move the pointer above and to the left of the Static text part.
  2. Click and hold the left mouse button. Move the pointer so that the gray rectangle covers both parts.
  3. Release the left mouse button. The two selected parts appear highlighted.
  4. Move the pointer to the Static text part. Click the right mouse button. The pop-up menu for this part appears.
  5. Instead of double-clicking on a certain part to get the Properties notebook, you can also select the Properties choice from the pop-up menu for that part.

  6. Select the Align choice from the pop-up menu. A submenu appears.
  7. Select the second alignment choice, . This action aligns the two parts to an imaginary horizontal axis running through both the static text part and the field entry part. Both parts should now be horizontally aligned.
  8. The Customer Inquiry window should now look like the following:

  9. Click on to indicate that you've done all the steps.