Aligning controls

[paieye]

I am learning Access, so please bear with me if to some of you this question seems elementary.

I have set out a report in a columnar lay-out. There are perhaps 8 controls in the column. In Print Preview, I can see that all the labels are correctly aligned left, but in 2 cases the text-boxes are out of alignment. One is a long way away to the right, the other is also to the right, though considerably less so.

I go to each offending control in turn, click on the control to make the handles appear, steer the mouse-pointer till it turns into a pointing finger, and drag the text-box until I can see on the grid that it is precisely aligned with the other text-boxes.

I have another look at the report in Print Preview --- and nothing has changed.

Have I missed something ?

 

[paieye]

As I have not had a single reply, the question was obviously harder than I thought !

It turned out that by default the alignment in all of my text-boxes was 'General'. To remove the difficulty, the alignment in the offending text-boxes had to be re-set to 'Align Left'.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

the general alignment concerns the alignment of the text within the box -eg left/right. normally numbers are rightjustified so numeric columns lineup, and text is left justified so text expressions line up.

you can set the actual positioning of a number of boxes easily. Grab all the boxes you want. Either loop them with the mouse or ctrl-click on each in turn to select a few. On the format menu at the top you can then size them as a group to the tallest, widest, shortest etc, and can set the spacing between them as you require also.

 

[paieye]

Thank you, but I had tried that, and it had also not worked until the text-alignment was formatted as described.