To display the 'Field' dialog:

Select Edit... from the Fields menu or
Hold down Ctrl and press the D key.

The Field dialog is used to set up fields and tags for the data. It consists of a Control panel, the Fields list/tree window and seven tabbed pages.

Tabbed pages

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Definitions

Defining fields and tags

Searching

Setting search tag options

Action

Setting field actions

Advanced

Setting advanced options in field definitions

File

Setting fields file options

PDF

Special fields for PDF export

XML

Outputting to XML

Control panel

The panel below the tabbed pages contains several controls beside the standard OK, Cancel and Help buttons. These enable you to control the view of the document in the main window, without closing the Field dialog.

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Click the back/forward buttons to show the previous/next page of the document.

Scroll-page arrows glyph

Click the left, up, down or right buttons in the arrow set to scroll the page.

tree view box 'ticked' glyph Tree

Click to switch between 'list' and 'tree' views: see Fields list/tree.

Refresh

When you have edited fields, click to re-evaluate the fields and update the document.

Delete

To remove the selected field from the document.