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You can add help text to a field to provide further information.

When a field control's Display Help Text property is ticked, the Help Text icon will be shown next to the field in the the WYSIWYG panel. Double click this to set the help text.

You can change a field control's Help Text Position property to set whether the help text will be displayed as a popup window when the icon is clicked, or to be always displayed to the right or underneath the field editor.

The help text icon will always be hidden when the form runs if no help text has been set, even if the field control's Display Help Text property is ticked.

Steps

1

Tick the Display Help Text property of the personal details field control, if it is not already ticked.

2

Double click the Help Text icon for the personal details field control, and set its text content to be:

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3

Run the form. By default, the help text is shown as an icon that will be displayed as a popup window when clicked.

4

Change the Help Text Position property so that the help text is always displayed underneath this field control's editor.

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