From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports

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Lines and rectangles

Lines and rectangles

From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports

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Lines and rectangles

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- [Voiceover] The next two controls that I wanna explore at the line and the rectangle controls. They're useful for marking off space and grouping elements together in your forms and reports. Now, admittedly, lines and rectangles are not very exciting but proper use of them can go a long way to making your forms and reports legible and unambiguous. Let's go ahead and open up this controls form that we created in the last movie and I'll just right click on it and open it straight into design view. The line control can be found in the first row of the ribbon here on my screen, it's this angled line right there. Go ahead and click on it once and you'll notice your cursor changes to indicate you're going to add in a line. In order to draw in a line, just click and drag so you can get the length of it. Lines have this weird property that if you make them completely horizontal or exactly vertical which is the way most of your lines are going to be, you actually can't see at all what you're…

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