My Access form is soo large

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CINDY K

I have an access for that when opened, it is very large.
I have to use scroll bars to move on it.

When I look at the form in the Maintenance mode, it does
not seem to be so big.

In word and excel we can look at letters at different
magnifications. Is there a way to reduce the view of the
form. I have reduced the sizes of the fields, but this
did not take care of the problem.
 
If your form is too big because you have a lot of controls, then you might
want to consider using tabs so that the user only sees a few controls at a
time.

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You can scale your form up or down depending on your need. There are
third-party form scaling solutions available that might help:

A shareware version of a form rescaling module I wrote called
ShrinkerStretcher is available at this web site:
http://www.peterssoftware.com/ss2.htm

FMS has a sizer module at www.fmsinc.com.

The Access Developer's Handbook has form resizing code included:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0782119417/107-8064361-7403703

For more informmation, there are some great articles about form scaling in
the December 2000, and May 2001 SmartAccess newsletter. Check it out here:
http://www.smartaccessnewsletter.com

Hope this helps,

Peter De Baets
Peter's Software - MS Access Tools for Developers
http://www.peterssoftware.com
 
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