Copying and pasting groups of fields in report design view

[roadie3124]

I'm using Access 2016 and one of the features of this version is annoying me. I need to add an extra column to a report. I've been used to selecting all the fields in an existing column (e.g. page header, detail, group total, report total) and doing a ctrl-c, ctrl-v. In previous versions that I have a lot of experience with (e.g. 97, 2003) the new column of fields is copied on top of the existing column, with the new column selected. It's easy to just drag the new column across to empty space and then change label captions, control sources, etc. The heights of the sections don't change.

When I do this in 2016, the new column fields are copied below the existing column fields and the section heights are changed. It's easy to drag the new column to the right, but the design view won't let me drag the group of fields up to the correct top position. I have to align the top of every new field individually and then set the section heights back to what they were. This is very annoying.

Is there a solution.

 

[roadie3124]

That one annoys me too. And the way they've made it more difficult to swap between windows. I sometimes wonder if the people making these changes have ever seen how developers use the platform.