Add Horizontal Spacing buttons to toolbar

[DataMiner]

This seems like it should be so simple.... How do I add the buttons for "horizontal spacing" (Make equal, decrease, increase) to my form-design toolbar???? These don't seem to be listed in the available commands for customizing toolbars.

If I can't do this, is there some way to fire the "decrease" thing multiple times without having to go all the way back through the format menu each time?

Access 2002, by the way.

 

[llkhoutx]

Menu View|Customize, then New to create a new tool bar, or
right click any tool bar and select customize from the menu which opens, etc.

Drag Icons, one by one, from the various lists to an existing toolbar, or to the new tool bar you've created.

I always create a new toolbar for each application, adding icons which I always use and which are not otherwise available of any of the standard toolbars.

A click on an icon, as you've probably found out, is substantially easier than drilling down some menu.

 

[DataMiner]

Yes, I know how to customize a toolbar. My point is, the "horizontal spacing" buttons do not seem to be available to drag from any of the existing command lists. Am I just not seeing them?

 

[llkhoutx]

Guess I'm dense. I don't know what you mean by "horizontal spacing" buttons. If the menu has an icon shown on the drop list, generally there's an associated icon.

 

[DataMiner]

In Access 2002, in form design view, once you select 2 or more items and then go to the format menu, horizontal spacing, there are three choices:
make equal
increase
decrease

Each one has a nice little icon beside it, which makes me believe that those icons would show up as an option to add to customize the toolbar. But I can't find them.

 

[pcs]

dataminer,

it can be done...but it's a bit messy and hard to explain.

(make sure you have a format toolbar)

create a new form with 2 controls on it and select them both.

open the Customize window.

from the menu open the format and select horizontal spacing. drag the icons for increase/decrease/make equal to
the format toolbar.

however, they are now gone from the menu! so you need to select the main menu from the customize and re-apply defaults.

this works in a97, haven't tested it with anything else, and there may be an easier method!

hth,
al

 

[DataMiner]

Thank you! Works like a dream!