Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 - Manual (Page 182)

8-14 AppleWorks 5 User’s Manual
Adding records
To add a record, choose Browse or List from the Layout menu, and then click
on the Default button bar, (or choose New Record from the Edit menu).
AppleWorks displays the record in the current layout and increases the
record number in the status area by one. You can quickly add a new record
by typing Ctrl+R.
AppleWorks adds new records after all the records in your database. (To
view records in a particular order, regardless of the order in which you
entered them in the database, you can sort them. See “Sorting records” on
page 8-21.)
Changing the tab order
The tab order is the order in which you move from one field to the next when
you press Tab in Browse mode. The tab order is preset to the order in which
you place the fields on the layout. Changing the tab order does not rearrange
the fields—it simply changes the order of field selection when you press Tab.
To change the tab order, choose Browse from the Layout menu, and then choose
Tab Order. In the Tab Order dialog box, click Clear, and then move the field
names into the Tab Order list, in the order you want data entered into them. To
move a name, click the field name in the Field List, and then click Move.
Enter a picture or movie in a
multimedia field Use one of the following methods:
1
Copy and paste a picture or movie from a different
document.
1
Choose Insert from the File menu, and then select the
picture or movie file using the Insert dialog box.
1
Add an object from a library palette.
1
Choose OLE Options from the Edit menu, and then
choose Insert OLE Object.
When a field contains a picture, you see the picture in
the field. When the field contains a movie, you see a
preview image of the movie. To play a movie, see
“Playing movies in multimedia fields” on page 8-17.
Choose a value from a
predefined list Select the field to see the predefined list. Then
double-click a value, or select the value and press Enter
(on the numeric keypad).
* Choose Index from the Help menu and type the first few letters of the entry. Double-click the
entry and then double-click a topic.
To Do this
In the Help index, * see:
E
New Record command
In the Help index, * see:
E
tabbing