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Access form fields locked as one, how to unlock individuals fields?

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RBP

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May 5, 2001
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Hi can anyone help with this? I've been an access user longer than I care to remember, but this one is causing me much stress. As a new user to the (UN)helpful access 2007 I am not impressed by the time I have to spend finding things that were intuitive on previous versions. Enough of that for now.

I created a Form from a Table, I want to edit the size of some fields, and reposition others.
Access 2007 seems to have a default set that only allows you to resize ALL fields in one go, Does anyone know how to unlock them? So that I can amend sizes etc. I have RTFM but can find no useful help.
Thanks in advance. Whinge ends...
 
I don't have 2007, but I did find this:
Put the form in designview:
1. Home tab - first button - arrow - design view
2. Click on one of the controls (just pick one). The control should now have
an orange border around it.
3. Look at the top left corner of the first label of all your controls. You
should see a little box with a cross in it. Click once on the cross.
4. All your controls should have a orange border around them
5. Click on the "Arrange" -tab in the ribbon
6. The second group in this tab [control layout] shows a couple of buttons.
The first three state "Tabular", "Stacked", "Remove".
7. Click on the "Remove" button. Your controls show little black squares
tied to them indicating they are now individually moveable.
8. Click anywhere in the form to remove the selection
9. Move your control to the place you want to have it. Resizing is also possible.

In Layout view you can also resize your controls but you don't see the little squares to indicate where you can rseize them with. Just 'grab' the border and resize it.

Back to me - intuitive, isn't it?
 
Thank you kindly, I remember the 'old' days when I knew how software worked. Hmmm change for changes sake methinks - still I have noted this for future ref.
Regards Rob.
 
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