Re: Sizing text boxes and labels individually in 2007


"Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Paul E. Schoen" <pstech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I found out how to do this. Under form design tools there is a "Remove"
control which removes the columnar properties of a group of controls and
allows individual sizing, etc. It seems like this user interface layout
is
rather confusing, although it is pretty. Just like Vista!

What do others think?


This is one of my favorite new features in 2007. The resulting
improvement in
developer productivity absolute stunning. In fact I would go so far
as to say that this is the first real big true change in how we designed
forms and reports in access what, about its 17 year history?

[snip]

I am hard pressed to think of any new feature in the last 3-5 versions of
access that improves the abiity of one to layout forms and reports
remotely close to the new control layout feature...

I think this new feature is nothing short of amazing....

You have certainly presented a compelling case for this feature. It is
indeed a powerful and useful tool, once it is understood, as is the case
with most any tool. It was impossible to find out how to remove this
feature by using the help, and that was frustrating, which led me to find
this NG. Then after a few more minutes I stumbled on the "fix". I do not
use Access very often, but now I am building an application for someone and
they purchased the latest version, so I had to do the same. It was
certainly time to upgrade from 97, but I have been hesitant to convert my
previous MDB databases to the new ACCDB because there is no convenient way
to turn back.

I am still struggling with a few things that are probably difficult because
they need to use VB. I am more used to Borland Delphi Object Pascal and
various versions of C, so the idiosyncrasies of the language and my
unfamiliarity with the database objects makes it hard to do things
efficiently and correctly. Access is sure a long way from my earliest
experiences with dBase III and Nantucket Clipper.

I hope it is OK to ask some newbie questions here, even if they may not be
specifically related to forms? I'll struggle along for awhile and try to
learn, and then maybe ask for help again.

Thanks,

Paul


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