Design Tools Toolbar

On the Design Tools toolbar you will find buttons for editing form elements. Click a button to launch the corresponding design tool.

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Design Tools toolbar

Buttons on the Design Tools toolbar:

Button Description
Show Grid Shows/hides the grid.
Show Main Ruler Shows/hides the main ruler.
Snap to Grid Snaps the top left corner of newly created elements to the nearest grid node. When moving a form element, it will also be snapped to the nearest grid node.
Align Left Aligns the selected elements to the left edge of the last selected element.
Center Horizontally Centers the selected elements along the center of the last selected element without changing their vertical position.
Align Right Aligns the selected elements to the right edge of the last selected element.
Align Top Aligns the selected elements to the top edge of the last selected element.
Center Vertically Centers the selected elements along the center of the last selected element without changing their horizontal position.
Align Bottom Aligns the selected elements to the bottom edge of the last selected element.
Align to Grid Aligns the top left corners of all the selected elements to the nearest grid nodes.
Space Evenly Across Spaces selected elements evenly across the page.
Space Evenly Down Spaces selected elements evenly down the page.
Make Same Height Makes the height of all the selected elements the same as the height of the last selected element.
Make Same Width Makes the width of all the selected elements the same as the width of the last selected element.
Make Same Height and Width Makes the height and width of all the selected elements the same as the height and width of the last selected element.
Size to Grid Expands the borders of the selected element to the nearest grid lines.
Merge Merges the selected elements on the form.
Split Splits the selected elements on the form.
Add to Merged Elements Adds elements to previously merged elements. Both the elements to be added and the previously merged elements must be selected.
Bring to Front Moves the selected elements to the foreground.
Send to Back Moves the selected elements to the background.
Snap Align Rulers to Elements Turns on/off the automatic binding of elements to rulers. If this mode is turned on, when you move a ruler on the form, it will be automatically bound to the elements that are sufficiently close to it.
Show All Rulers Shows/hides all rulers.
Vertical Ruler Creates a vertical ruler.
Horizontal Ruler Creates a horizontal ruler.
Delete All Rulers Deletes all rulers.

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