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Modify form positioning
From the course: Cert Prep: Access Expert - Microsoft Office Specialist for Office 2019 and Office 365
Modify form positioning
- [Instructor] When working with a form, to move each control one by one can be very tedious, but we want to make sure that there's enough white space between each of our fields so that the form is easy to read. After watching this video, you'll know how to control the margins inside of your text boxes and your labels. You'll also know how to control the padding around each of your labels and text boxes and how to anchor controls. Let's jump into our modify form position database and take a look at our Sales 2018-2019 form. As we scroll down through the form, we can see that some of our labels and text boxes are a little bit truncated and all of our fields, all of our text boxes and labels are right on top of each other. Well, we can change that just by changing the padding around each of the labels and text boxes. Let's go into design view. We'll select the OrderID text box and the label. On the form design tools, go…
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