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+ <helpdocument version="1.0">
+<meta>
+<topic id="textsharedguidedata_formsxhp" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
+<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Working with Forms</title>
+<filename>/text/shared/guide/data_forms.xhp</filename>
+</topic>
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+<body>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id5762199"><bookmark_value>opening;forms</bookmark_value>
+<bookmark_value>forms;creating</bookmark_value>
+<bookmark_value>design view;creating forms</bookmark_value>
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+<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN105F9" xml-lang="en-US" level="1"><variable id="data_forms"><link href="text/shared/guide/data_forms.xhp">Working with Forms</link>
+</variable></paragraph>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10617" xml-lang="en-US">Using forms, you can define how to present the data. Open a text document or a spreadsheet and insert the controls such as push buttons and list boxes. In the properties dialogs of the controls, you can define what data the forms should display.</paragraph>
+<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Creating a New Form With the Form Wizard</paragraph>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1061E" xml-lang="en-US">In %PRODUCTNAME, you can create a new form using the <link href="text/shared/autopi/01090000.xhp">Form Wizard</link>:</paragraph>
+<list type="ordered">
+<listitem>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10632" xml-lang="en-US">Open the database file where you want to create the new form.</paragraph>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10636" xml-lang="en-US">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon.</paragraph>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Form</emph>.</paragraph>
+</listitem>
+</list>
+<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Creating a New Form Manually</paragraph>
+<list type="ordered">
+<listitem>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1064C" xml-lang="en-US">Open the database file where you want to create the new form.</paragraph>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10650" xml-lang="en-US">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon.</paragraph>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US">Click <emph>Create Form in Design View</emph>.</paragraph>
+</listitem>
+</list>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1065F" xml-lang="en-US">A new text document opens. Use the <link href="text/shared/02/01170000.xhp">Form Controls</link> to insert form controls.</paragraph>
+<paragraph role="note" id="par_idN10670" xml-lang="en-US">Click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon to access all forms that were created from within the current database window. In addition, you can use the <emph>Form Controls</emph> icons to add database form controls to any Writer or Calc document, but these documents will not be listed in the database window. </paragraph>
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+<embed href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/>
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