I am drawing a form and some of the elements can overlap slightly causing a misaligned text box to vanish a chunk of line in the box I drew to contain the elements. I click on fill "none" and it makes no difference. 
A similar issue is text boxes that sometimes won't change from down to flat by just selecting the option. I did get them to change by picking another text box that was already flat and using the make like me function.

I can work around this by being precice but can be frustrating sometimes since the "none" option is there and, right now, I am just throwing thing around to see what works where.

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A Text Box cannot be set to Fill None because the text box cannot work  properly with a transparent background. It won't be able to draw properly as you type into it.

I recommend making the box containing the elements slightly larger instead, so that there is no overlap.

Thanx, I have been spending an extra 5-10 minutes "tidying up" everytime I need to show the form to someone. I am working with very little wiggle room though. I'm glad the group objects thing may show up. I do alot of layout on publishing programs and keep trying to do things that don't work in sesame. Like bring to front, that would solve the problem of overlap too. I 1st thought having graphics always be on top would be nice but I just realized I might put a full screen picture with all the lines on the page and place fields over them. (I am trying to avoid merging because I cannot get it to do what I want, pitiful huh?)

I know I need to merge. I can get it to work manually but I need it to work on a button. The Master's disk has a sample that uses a macro but my macros always do wild things. I think it is a matter of being in the right place when you click the button and I KNOW the people who will be using the program can't be trusted to do that so I nixed that option. I can use printscreen but have yet to decipher the programming on the sample to do a merge. I never did any programming until about 3 weeks before the conf. I guess it is homework time
Thanx
~Natalie
ps: I usually have about 4 hours a week to play with the program. This week is an exception.