From the course: Microsoft Access: Forms and Reports
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Anchor controls
From the course: Microsoft Access: Forms and Reports
Anchor controls
- [Instructor] When creating forms in an Access database, you'll need to be aware of how the layout will change when you view them on computers with different sized screens. By anchoring objects to the edges of your screen, your forms can better respond to a shift in scale. You can apply anchoring to any object on your form and the behavior is going to be the same. To explore what the options are, let's create a new temporary form in Design view and we'll just play around with a single control. On the form design contextual tab in the controls group, I'm just going to grab a button control. It's this icon here with the rectangle and the heavier edge on the bottom right. I'll click it once to select that object. And then I'll come down into my form and I'll click to add in a button. That'll start up the command button wizard, which we're not going to use. So let's just press the cancel button to get rid of it. Now the…
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