maximum size of form

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I am creating a form that has a number of subforms on, I have a summary at
the bottom and find I have run out of size for the form 55cm.

Does anyone know if I can increase this size or any other suggestions?

Thanks
Les
 
LJG said:
I am creating a form that has a number of subforms on, I have a summary at
the bottom and find I have run out of size for the form 55cm.

Does anyone know if I can increase this size or any other suggestions?

Thanks
Les
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Use a tab control
 
I am creating a form that has a number of subforms on, I have a summary at
the bottom and find I have run out of size for the form 55cm.

Does anyone know if I can increase this size or any other suggestions?

Thanks
Les
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A Tab control allows you to "share" screen space among multiple
controls. Put each subform on its own Tab page.

Note that a Form with a very large number of subforms will be slow to
load and to navigate from record to record, since every time you move
to a new record (or open the form), every subform must be requeried.

John W. Vinson[MVP]
 
John, would a page break work for this also?

A Tab control allows you to "share" screen space among multiple
controls. Put each subform on its own Tab page.

Note that a Form with a very large number of subforms will be slow to
load and to navigate from record to record, since every time you move
to a new record (or open the form), every subform must be requeried.

John W. Vinson[MVP]
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John, would a page break work for this also?
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I don't believe so; a page break is still limited by the 22"/55cm
total size limit. A tab control is not.

John W. Vinson[MVP]
 
Cheers Guys,

Thanks for that, I had the page setup as a tab control and it does make
things slower, hence my question about the size of the form.

Not a problem I can work arround this.

Many thanks
Les
 
LJG said:
Cheers Guys,

Thanks for that, I had the page setup as a tab control and it does make things
slower, hence my question about the size of the form.

Not a problem I can work arround this.
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You can leave the SourceObject property of the subform controls blank and use
the Change event of the TabControl to set them. This way they are not all
loaded when the form is opened.
 
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