Text Overflow
As you're typing data into any multi-line text field, only a certain amount of text can fit when the report prints. Based on the field size and your default font, TOTAL knows the text limits for each field. When you exceed the limit, you're presented with a screen allowing you to move the excess text into an addendum.
You can take advantage of TOTAL's overflow capabilities in two ways: automatically and manually.
The automatic method takes care of itself. As you're typing, if you overflow a text field, the overflow tools launch asking you what to do.
To manually overflow a field, just place your cursor in the field, and then, from TOTAL's addenda tools, click Overflow in the addenda toolbar.
To view the addendum containing your overflow text, click Addenda in the top toolbar or navigate to the Addenda PowerView. Then, click the dropdown on the upper left to view the addenda in your report. The overflow text transfers to the addendum indicated by an asterisk (*).
Configure Text Overflow
By default, whenever text overflow occurs in your report, TOTAL prompts you about how you want to handle the text. You can also manually force TOTAL to prompt you about text overflow by clicking Overflow in the addenda toolbar.
To configure text overflow:
In many cases, when you run out of space in a form field, you only need to type a few more words to complete your response. In those cases, it's often better just to reduce the font size in the field slightly. If you want to set TOTAL's text overflow tools to automatically take this approach instead of always moving excess words to the addendum, check the Reduce the Size of the Font in the Current Field box. Then, type the number of times you want TOTAL to reduce the font size before overflowing your text to the addendum into the box provided.
If you want TOTAL to overflow text to the Additional Comments field on your major form, when it's both available on your major form and has room for comments, check the If Available, First Overflow to the Additional Comments Field on the Major Form box.
When TOTAL uses overflow, there are two ways to overflow text to the addendum:
To move all of the text from the entire field into the addendum:
Mark the Move All Text to the Addendum, Then Jump to the Addendum option.
If you want to note that the text for the field is in the addendum, check the When moving text, add this note to the current field: checkbox, then type the text you'd like to note on the form into the box provided.
To leave the text in the form field as is and just jump to the addendum when overflow occurs:
Mark the Copy all text to the addendum, then jump to the addendum option.
If you need to change the label for a field in the addendum, enter one by typing into the box The Current Field is Called.
If you want to reformat the labels that TOTAL uses for overflow fields, click Edit Definitions. In the screen that appears, type the format you would like to use for your text overflow field names. Be sure to leave the $F and $D placeholders for the current form name and description intact. If necessary, check the Text Style boxes at the bottom to bold, italicize, or underline the field names in your addendum. Click OK to save your format changes.
To disregard overflowing to the addenda:
Mark the Do not move text to the addendum. Return to the field I was typing in. Now, TOTAL won't overflow that field to the addenda, giving you the opportunity to shorten text in the field.
Next, mark an option in the What to Do in the Future section to tell TOTAL how to prompt you about text overflows in the future. Options include:
Show This Box Every Time - Always prompts you about how to handle every text overflow.
Don't Show This Box Again, Just Do It Automatically - Accepts your preferences for handling text overflows as the way to handle all future overflows and does not prompt you.
Don't Show This Box Again, and Don't Jump to the Addendum - Automatically uses your preferences for handling text overflows without prompting you and does not jump to the addendum when overflows occur.
Click OK to save your overflow preferences.
