I don't WANT the form opened maximized.

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Sue

I keep TELLING it that.
It doesn't pay attention!
I resize it in design view, verify that the measured width of the form is
correct in the properties sheet, save it... and it opens full screen anyway!
I've also set auto resize to "no" and border style to a variety of different
settings, but nothing seems to resolve the issue.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.
 
Sue said:
I keep TELLING it that.
It doesn't pay attention!
I resize it in design view, verify that the measured width of the
form is correct in the properties sheet, save it... and it opens full
screen anyway! I've also set auto resize to "no" and border style to
a variety of different settings, but nothing seems to resolve the
issue. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.
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Do you have anything else maximized? In Access when you maximize one thing you
maximize all things. Same as in Word and Excel.
 
Sue said:
I keep TELLING it that.
It doesn't pay attention!
I resize it in design view, verify that the measured width of the form is
correct in the properties sheet, save it... and it opens full screen
anyway!
I've also set auto resize to "no" and border style to a variety of
different settings, but nothing seems to resolve the issue.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.
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How are you opening the form? You may have some code running that tells it
to maximise which may be overriding your property box settings.

Keith.
www.keithwilby.com
 
See Help for information about MoveSize. Add MoveSize to the form's Open
event. For example:
DoCmd.MoveSize 1440, 1440, 5 * 1440, 3 * 1440
will set the form 1" from the left, 1" from the top, 5" wide, and 3" tall.
MoveSize measurements are in twips. A twip is one twentieth of a point, and
there are 72 points per inch, so there are 1440 twips per inch. You can use
either 7200 or 1440 * 5 for a 5" measurement.
 
I have luck controlling my forms better by accessing them through a macro or
code. I open the form and then normalize.
 
Just clicking on it - nothing unusual.
I hadn't thought about the code. Will look @ that.
Thanks.
 
Dear Lord -
Should it have to be that complicated?
Thanks, though - I was unaware of the existence of twips & would have
thought they were teeny animals found in the outback or some such. I
definitely learned something new today!
 
Ah HA - that was the answer, all right.
The person who designed the form had entered code to maximize the form.
Thanks, all, for your help on this!
 
Sue said:
Ah HA - that was the answer, all right.
The person who designed the form had entered code to maximize the form.
Thanks, all, for your help on this!
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Result! Glad to help Sue.

Keith.
 
MoveSize can be very convenient if you want a pop-up form to be in a
particular location (so that it doesn't cover something or other on the main
form, for instance). Since it turns out there was code to maximize the
form, it seems that the problem is solved. I was just tossing in another
thought, in case the other suggestions didn't lead to the desired result.
Twips are sort of strange measurement units, but then so are points, except
we're all sort of used to those, even if we're not quite sure what they are.
 
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