Help with form design/form resizing

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Hi, I'm having some difficulty with what I suspect to be a
very simple task. I want to design a resizable form that
will scale its fields to the new form size. Currently, if
the form is resized, the fields stay stationary on the
form, leaving a lot of ugly dead space.

Ideally, the form would be resizable to allow the subform
(in datasheet view) to grow as well, giving users the
option of seeing more fields and lengthening longer text
fields.

I've looked all over the web and racked my brain trying to
figure out how to do this, but apparently I am weaker with
searches than I thought. :)

I greatly appreciate any advice and help anyone can offer.
 
JJT said:
Hi, I'm having some difficulty with what I suspect to be a
very simple task. I want to design a resizable form that
will scale its fields to the new form size. Currently, if
the form is resized, the fields stay stationary on the
form, leaving a lot of ugly dead space.

Ideally, the form would be resizable to allow the subform
(in datasheet view) to grow as well, giving users the
option of seeing more fields and lengthening longer text
fields.

I've looked all over the web and racked my brain trying to
figure out how to do this, but apparently I am weaker with
searches than I thought. :)

I greatly appreciate any advice and help anyone can offer.
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What you are asking is actually more complex to achieve than you
imagine!

It depends on why you are doing the resizing. If it's for differing
resolution screens, then have a look at www.peterssoftware.com for his
'sizer/shrinker' or similar at www.mvps.org or there is code for this
in the Access [version] Developer's Handbook together with an excellent
explanation of the issues involved.

hth

Hugh
 
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