Size Matters - Part I

21/02/2014

MS: AutoFit Text into Text Fields

Ask FileMaker: How to AutoFit Text into Fields or Stretch, expand/reduce Field size to fit the text.

14/10/2009

RFC: 193

Expanding Field: In the Job Diary, when I click on an entry it expands to show the contents of the Field.

However as I reach the bottom of the screen, it doesn't expand.

Looks like it can only expand downwards, not upwards?

08/02/2005

Shrink or Expand Fields according to the amount of text

04/02/2013

MS: Dynamically Resize Body Area

Ask FileMaker: How do you set the Body Area in a Layout to Dynamically Resize, according to the Field sizes that ‘grow’ downwards, when they have more text than the regular Field size?

04/02/2013

Menasche Scharf

Ask FileMaker) How do you set a row of Text Fields to allow them to Dynamically Resize (i.e. Auto-size, Auto-resize (), Autosize, Expand, Autoresize - grow or shrink, slide) VERTICALLY or HORIZONTALLY, according to the one Field in the row that has the largest amount of text?

Links:

http://www.filemaker.com/help/11/fmp/html/edit_layout.10.9.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/1157176/fmproprint.html

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=shrink+enclosing+part+feature

FileMaker Pro 12: The Missing Manual:

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