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Introduction
About this manual
Your User Manual is composed of four main sections:
Introduction: This chapter will introduce you to the software.
Setting Up the Application: Learn how to set up and customize software to your preferences.
Designing Forms: Learn how to create forms. You should refer to this chapter regularly while
designing forms, until you have completely familiarized yourself with the commands. By using the
information contained in this chapter, you will be very quickly able to use the software efficiently.
Conventions used in this Manual
Text that appears in bold letters refers to the names of the menus, buttons and other 'clickable' things
like OK button.
Text that appears in italic refers to the options and confirming actions - like Read only.
Text enclosed in brackets refers to keys from the PC keyboard like <Enter>.
Variables are enclosed in square brackets like [variable].
Welcome to Power Forms
Power Forms is a software package that helps you create forms for entering data and printing labels.
Using Power Forms you can easily design any form with none programming skills required. Power
Forms can be used with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows
XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, and Win-
dows Server 2012.
The basic idea of the Power Forms is to simplify entering variable data on the labels. First you have
to design the label in NiceLabel using the variables of prompted or database type for the variable
fields on the label. Then you can use the Power Forms to create the simple user interface to fill in
the variable data needed to print a label. This way the user cannot accidentally modify the label, and
entering the data is greatly simplified. The process of printing labels is still performed by NiceLabel
(using DDE), although the user sees only the form.
The way of designing forms is very user friendly and flexible. Forms can include different fixed
(text, pictures) or variable objects (edit fields, memo fields) and action buttons, which are used to
start some sort of action (e.g. print, or change the form).
The forms have two modes: the design mode and the run mode. In design mode you can create and
design forms and in the run mode you can enter data and print labels.
Power Forms has the logic that supports default values. This logic speeds up the work and prevents
printing labels with incorrect contents.
The DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) function sends the entered data to the basic program NiceLabel
that manages the entire printing process.