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Hi dunbarx,
The document would be a page to be printed.

How would I get the user's name, address, etc., store the info, then put the lines of info into a document ?

Couldnt edit it as I mistakenly loaded the standalone version. Sorry.

Hi,
I just tried loading a new card, unexpectedly lost the stack card, ctrl-alt-del without saving, fired up again and now I cannot edit anything; presumably something is still active, I don't know what, any ideas ?

Many thanks, Stam.

Hi, As an absolute LC novice, I have no idea what is the best way to proceed in setting up a basic template that could be cloned and amended for the various documents. Is it just rectangles and fields, locked in position, or would datagrid work better, or some other way of combining tables. I don't ...

Hi Craig, Thank you for taking the time to make up and send your illustration, I appreciate it. Yes, it DID work, I got 'fish' in the lower left button. However, when I changed the code to act on BB it did not work, 'BB' remained 'BB'. I then deleted the stack and ran it again from the download, and...

Hi Stam, Sorry to say that I just tried your method, and got as far as one button showing 'action' and the other blank, but it remained blank after I entered the code in 'Action' and closed 'Action' and made a couple of mouseclicks. But, I just tried a new button, in Inspector I entered 'Trial' as n...

The issue is now solved. I mistakenly copied, pasted and positioned a number of buttons prior to naming and coding them. I think this must have caused a problem, as, when I deleted them all and started again with just one button, it seemed to work.

Hi,
I selected mouseup handler, entered the code, came out of script and clicked the button.
Nothing happened, no text on button.

The button

I entered it into object > code

I just entered
"
...
set the label of btn id 1006 to "Raise an invoice"
...
"
without success

I just put the following code
"...
set the label of btn "1006" to "Raise an invoice"
...
"
into a button, set different colors for text and background, and don't get the text on the button.
'Errors' shows 'No errors'

Any ideas please ?

Many thanks, Klaus, the contents button is just what I needed ! Now it's all fine.