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When you click on Advanced in any of the printing sections of PrintPRO, a screen something like this will appear.

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Here you may change the words that are used for titles, control what data appears, and specify fonts.

An important advanced feature allows you to uncheck AutoSize. Normally the program adjusts font sizes and spacing automatically to fit the card. Unchecking this box will turn off this feature to allow the advanced user to make manual adjustments using Spacer and Top. These fields are ignored when AutoSize is checked. When AutoSize is unchecked Spacer controls the space between sections and Top controls the space above the first section.

Another check box at the top of the page allows you to specify that dates will be formatted in Spanish.

You may also adjust spacing by clicking on
Margins.

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You will probably need need to change Margins on Prayer Cards or Memorial Folders. However, with Acknowledgement Cards and Register Books, adjusting margins is the preferred way to deal with pages with panels or borders. You might want to bring down the top margin to clear a preprinted heading, or bring in one side margin to clear a border, or both side margins to shorten the lines of text in your verse.

The Advanced section also allows you to specify pictures and clip art and set their sizes. You can separately specify pictures at top or bottom using fields that look like:

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When you click on the 3 dots at the right of these fields, you will see

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Select None and click
OK for no picture. Select Deceased and click OK for a picture of the Deceased. Select ClipArt and click OK to bring up the screen to choose your Clip Art.

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Click on the image of your choice to highlight it, and then click
Open to copy the name of your image into the picture field.

A word of caution is required. If you select say Basic and Roman Small and make changes here and exit by simply clicking on OK, you will be changing the Sets we defined for you. If later you install an update, your changes will be lost. The solution is to save your changes into a new Set with a name of your choosing. Say for example you wish to make a special Set with a larger than normal picture without losing your regular setup. The best way to do this is to first choose a Data Set with a picture, say Basic - Picture (top), click Advanced, change the Pic Height as you wish and click on Save
Data to bring up the Prayer Card Setup screen.

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If you simply hit save, it would overwrite your existing file and we don't want that. So first choose a new file name like Big Picture At Top and type it in the File name box. It would be a good practice to select names that are distinct from the names we use. Good choices might be Frank's Big Picture At Top or CookFH Big Picture At Top.

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Now when you click on Save and return to Advanced you will see that the Selected Data Set has changed to your new name.

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Then when you click on OK to close the Advanced Screen you will see that your new Data Set has been added to the Select Data List and is available to be selected in the future without having to go into Advanced at all.

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A similar procedure would allow you to make a new font set. In advanced, click one of the ellipses to bring up a Font selector dialog to change the font for the field you selected.

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All of the fonts installed on your computer will appear in the list. You may also specify a Color other than Black and you can even click on More Colors to bring up a Custom Color Dialog to exactly match the color of a particular ink.

The Register Books Tab contains two Advanced Buttons. The Advanced Button on the right is for adjusting what appears on a particular page. It operates just like the Advanced Buttons on the other tabs. The Advanced Button on the left is for adjusting what pages appear within a given book layout.

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To add a page to the Book, highlight it on the left and click on the >> key to move it to the right. To remove a page from the Book, highlight it on the right and click on
Remove. The up and down arrow keys allow you to reorder the pages.