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Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications
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In order to finish the layout of your two windows you need to know how to put static text on the window and how to link prompts and lookups.
Static text includes any words you see on the window that are not data fields. The value never changes, hence the word static. The most obvious static text is a field prompt. Some static text is identified on the following screenshot:

To type text on a window, use the toolbox button with the letter A on it.

Push the button and then click on the window where you want to add or modify text. When the cursor changes to a flashing vertical line and the mouse pointer is shaped as an I bar, you are ready to type.
To complete your lookup window, you need column headings. The column headings are actually static text on the host window, not the scrolling window. In order to know where to place the headings, you need to uncheck the Show Field Names option. Open the layout menu to access the Show Field Names...
Change the font size
Change margin width
Change background colour