Access 2016 Intermediate

Lesson 9 - Manipulating Form Controls in Design View

Access 2016

Steps

Practice Data

1. Select the controls you want to delete. Sizing handles appear around the controls.

Click the Customer Type text box

2. Press [Delete] .

Press [Delete]

The controls are deleted.

Practice the Concept: Delete the Contract Date text box.

S IZING A C ONTROL BY D RAGGING

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Discussion

Change the size of any control in Design view. Controls that display text generally display a single line of text horizontally and are long enough to show the entire data entry. If a control is not large enough to display the entire data entry to which it is bound, you have to scroll the corresponding field in form view to see the entire entry. If a field contains a large amount of text, such as a memo field, display several lines of text in the field by vertically increasing the size of the bound control. Changing the size of the control does not change the size of the text it contains.

NOTE Size selected controls with the keyboard by holding the [Shift] key while pressing the [Up] , [Down] , [Left] , or [Right] arrow keys. The selected controls are sized one pixel at a time.

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Procedures

1. Open the desired form or report in Design view. 2. Select the controls you want to size. 3. Point to the desired sizing handle. 4. Drag the sizing handle in the desired direction to expand or contract the control.

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