Form Footer

[Stemdriller]

Is it possible to move the postion of the Form Footer.

I have a Form Header, stuff in the detail section, now that I have added a Form Footer, the Detail section goes really small.

If I could lower the position of the Form Footer, but I cannot for the life of me find how to?

 

[RuralGuy]

You can drag the detail section down as far as you want.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

screen real estate is valuable stuff though, and some forms need careful design, to fit everything on - personally i dislike forms that wont fit on the screen, as having to keep dragging scroll bars etc, is real time waster.

you can often redesign forms to provide "more space" if necessary -

eg, add a tab control ,and see if some of the things in the header or footer can go in a tab sheet

see if you can replace some button actions with a right-click menu

reduce font size etc

hide some controls in the footer, and provide a "toggle" mechanism to make them visible, and hide others.

 

[wiklendt]

Is it possible to move the postion of the Form Footer.

I have a Form Header, stuff in the detail section, now that I have added a Form Footer, the Detail section goes really small.

If I could lower the position of the Form Footer, but I cannot for the life of me find how to?

this stumped me the first time too - since i had only a small form, yet access still insisted on scrolling, and all i did was add a form footer.

the trick is to expand the size of the form window itself in design view - this took me a while to decipher at first because i was designing in maximised screen mode, so try to restore the design screen (not the access program all together, only the form design). and readjust the form size (the size of the window you're designing in) - then switch to form view and see if it's enough, then back to design view, then back to form view...

you can also play with some of the format properties, like "autoresize" and "autocenter". there may be an 'autosize', i can't remember...

 

[RuralGuy]

Is this the link you need?