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Re: Formatting Portals

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On 2018-02-20 00:46:35 +0000, Helpful Harry said:
> On 2018-02-19 23:37:01 +0000, Charles H. Sampson said:
>> Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:
>>> On 2/13/2018 10:23 AM, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Among the problems I'm having with portals is formatting. Again, I did
>>>> all of this in FMP8, although I no longer remember how.
>>>> 
>>>> How do I control the height of a portal's rows?
>>> 
>>> Select the portal and grab the center bottom handle and slide up/down.
>>> A tooltip will show you the actual row height.
>> 
>> What is "a tooltip"? The only way I've been able to control row height
>> so far is to specify the height of the portal as the product of the
>> desired row height and the number of rows.
> 
> That is exactly how you control a Portal's height. There's no point in 
> being able to make a Portal that is taller than the number of rows you 
> want - what would you use the extra space for?  :o)

If for some strange reason you want to make a Portal look bigger than 
its number of rows x row height really is, you could turn off the 
Portal's borders and use the rectangle shape tool to draw around the 
Portal to whatever size you want.

Helpful Harry   :o)

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Formatting Portals csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-02-13 10:23 -0800
  Re: Formatting Portals Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2018-02-13 11:09 -0800
    Re: Formatting Portals csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-02-19 15:37 -0800
      Re: Formatting Portals Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-02-20 13:46 +1300
        Re: Formatting Portals Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-02-22 10:08 +1300
          Re: Formatting Portals csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2018-02-22 16:26 -0800
            Re: Formatting Portals Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2018-02-23 15:29 +1300
      Re: Formatting Portals dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-02-20 14:06 +1300

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