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2. Select Box Properties.
Changing the Dimensions of a Box
Manually
1. Right-click the frame of the box whose size you
wish to change.
The box menu appears.
2. Select Box Properties.
The box properties dialog appears.
3. Change the value of the Weight. In this
example, we are changing the value to 3 (three
times greater than the default box weight of 1).
4. Click OK
The dialog closes, and the box sizes change to
reflect your change.
The Box Properties dialog appears.
3. Click the checkboxes to apply the options you
desire to the box.
The sizes of the boxes will change according to
the options you select.
• Minimum Height and Minimum Width
– The minimum height and width,
respectively, to which the box can shrink
when the E-Notebook window is resized or
the form is further configured in a way that
would shrink the box (for example, by
adding a box next to it).
• Preferred Height and Preferred Width –
The starting height and width, respectively,
of the box relative to other boxes in the
same container. To calculate the actual
height of a box within a container, begin
with the preferred height of the contained
boxes. Then,
•if the preferred dimensions would leave
extra space in the container box, add the
extra space in the container to each
E-Notebook
ChemOffice 2005/E-Notebook Managing Section Types and Forms • 499
Configuring a Form