Changing the size of a section

While designing a document, you can drag the lower boundary of a section to make it larger or smaller. However, by default, when you view a document as a PDF, its sections expand to fit the controls that they contain. They do not shrink when the controls are smaller than the section size. You can change this behavior by setting the Can Shrink property to True. Then the sections should be only as big as necessary to display all the information in the section.

You can define a section as a set size that does not vary, or as a variable size that grows or shrinks within set limits. Steps to do this are below.

To change the size of a section

  1. Open the document in Design or Editable Mode.

  2. Select the section to resize.

  3. From the Format menu, select Properties and Formatting. The Properties and Formatting dialog box opens.

  4. From the left, select Layout.

  5. Set the Height of the section in inches.

  6. Sets the following options. For suggestions, several sample settings are provided below to achieve specific design goals.

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