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Move Resize By Richard Rost 
6 years ago
QuickTip Shortcut Keys Move, Nudge, Resize Form Controls Learn how to use the arrow keys along with Ctrl and Shift to move, nudge, and resize controls on your forms and reports in your Microsoft Access databases. Thanks to Matt Pattison for the tip! Other Shortcut Keys
TranscriptWelcome to another TechHelp Quick Tip video brought to you by AccessLearningZone.com. I am your instructor Richard Rost.Once a week I am going to be presenting a new keyboard shortcut tip. Do not try to learn them all at once. There are tons of them and it can get overwhelming. Just learn each week's new shortcut and you will gradually increase your skill set and your productivity. Today we are going to talk about moving and resizing controls using the arrow keys with Control and Shift. Here I am in design view of a form. If you are like me, sometimes it is hard to get that control exactly where you want it. It is sometimes tough. Set your grid up exactly the way you want it, but sometimes it is easier to use the keyboard instead of clicking and dragging it. With the arrow keys, just move the arrow keys left. Notice it moves the control, the text box, and its associated label if you have it associated with it. Same thing with a check box. You can move that around with the arrow keys. If you want to move in very tiny increments called Twips (twentieth inch pixels), just hold the Control key down. Notice how it is moving very tiny, less than a grid amount. Let me zoom in so you can see that better. Now the Shift key is for resizing the control. Hold the Shift key down with the arrow keys. You can make that control wider or more narrow, like that, or taller and shorter. Sometimes that is easier than using the mouse. Now the Control with the Shift key resizes it in Twips, little teeny tiny amounts. I am holding down the Shift and the Control key. If you mess it up and want to go back to where it was, just use the Shift key by itself to put it back on the grid dots. That is moving and resizing your controls using the keyboard. The arrows are for moving. The arrows by themselves just move the control using whole grid amounts. The Control key is for Twips, and the Shift key is for resizing. Arrows by themselves move one grid unit. Control key with the arrows nudges one twip. That is called a nudge, little tiny teeny movement. Shift resizes, and then Control Shift is to nudge resize. There is this week's shortcut keys quick tip. I hope you have been using last week's tip, which was using Control comma and Control period to flip between design view and form view. Again, only try to add one of these a week. Do not go and watch them all. It is kind of like when you see that big sheet that you can find in the store with all the hundreds of different keyboard shortcuts. Those are useless unless you know them already. Just try to add one each week to your skill set and you will do a whole lot better, and you will remember them better that way. I will put a link to last week's shortcut keys in the description down below. For lots more tips like this, including my full TechHelp Q and A and my full Access Beginner class, I will put links down below as well. Thanks for watching. |
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