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The page layout in the centre of the screen provides full drag and drop support to rearrange components to achieve the required layout. When you move your mouse over the centre panel, a red highlight will indicate which component you are currently selecting. If you now press the mouse button, and start to drag this component, you will see a grey line appear to indicate where it will be placed when you release the mouse button. Moving groups or repeats in this way will automatically move everything contained within them. This drag and drop approach is also used to add new components, either from the design palette, or from a selected data source. In this case, the drag and drop approach also supports the concept of merging with the current component on the page. If a merge will be performed, when the mouse is released on a drag operation, you will see a dark red border around the component on the screen instead of the default grey insertion line. You can double-click elements on the page structure to rename the component and its label or caption where applicable. You can remove components by choosing 'Delete' from the right click context menu available on the centre panel. This menu also provides options for some common functions such as enabling the field label, or dynamic hiding capabilities, as well as links to visit the Field Details and Data Bindings tabs for the appropriate component. The Save and Cancel All buttons work in a similar manner to other pages. Clicking Save saves all changes made to the page structure since the last server call, whereas Cancel All resets all changes to the original state since the last server call.