The first "<" determines the font size of the displayed merge field.
So you place your merge field, then select all the text except the
first chevron and set it to some impossibly tiny size, like 3 pt. Then
a merge field that has a name like
"reallylongtablename
::Ivegottocompletelydescribefieldattributesinthefieldnamename"; but
holds data like "SALE", is easier to manage and visualize when
building layouts, as you have seen.
geoff
On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:12 PM, David O'Donnell wrote:
A former FileMaker developer at my company managed to insert merge
fields
into a layout that were "smaller" than their field names. That is,
if the
field name was "FieldName", the merge field would normally be
inserted as
"<<FieldName>>" but he managed to make it so that the field appeared
as
"<<Fi". (The width was smaller and the height remained constant at
one line
high.) This is great when trying to put merge fields at the right hand
margin of layouts so the horizontal scrollbar doesn't constantly
show up and
mess up the appearance.
I can't for the life of me figure out how he did this, and Google is
not
being my friend when I try to search for it. Does anyone have any
super-secret tip on how to accomplish this magic? I'm designing a new
database that would benefit from it.
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