Align Text Boxes with Margins: Dates & Currency

In this Microsoft Access tutorial, I will show you how to align text boxes that contain dates and currency values so that they appear neatly aligned in your forms. By adding the right margins, we can ensure your columns look professional and tidy.

Brandon from Tustin, California (a Platinum Member) asks: In Microsoft Access, I have a column of vertical text boxes on a form. Some of these boxes are formatted as currency and some as dates. The currency values leave extra space to the right for the potential parenthesis of negative numbers, but the date values do not, causing the column to look misaligned. How can I add some space to the right of the text boxes containing date values to make the column appear neatly aligned?

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