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Cant Shorten Form

Jennifer Nield

12 months ago

Hi. In my Database one of the forms contains 3 tabs.
For some odd reason, the form is way too long and has so much wasted space.
The first tab is the form, the 2nd and 3rd tabs are from subforms which I have checked are trimmed properly and don't have that wasted space.
Any ideas?
I have image clips of them but can't see where I can show them here.

	Jennifer Nield OP @Reply 12 months ago

	Bill Carver @Reply 12 months ago
Chances are you have some tiny object on the forms where you dont want it. press ctrl-a and see if anything suddenly appraes

Donald Blackwell @Reply

12 months ago

The height of all tabs will be the height of the tallest tab.

So if the content on your first tab takes up 2 inches, the content on your 2nd tab takes up 1 inch, and the content on your 3rd tab is 5 inches, all of your tabs will be at least 5 inches because the tab control has to accommodate all of the tabs at the same time.

Think of it as all of the content on all of your tabs is loaded at once, but the Tab your viewing makes the content on the other tabs visible property to no.

	Jennifer Nield OP @Reply 12 months ago
Bill I have checked that many times. Nothing there

	Jennifer Nield OP @Reply 12 months ago
I don't know how many times I tried fixing this, looking for the rogue tab, but today I tried again shortening them and it worked! I'm on a different machine, don't know if that has anything to do with it.

	Sami Shamma @Reply 12 months ago
Jennifer there is a good reason why Richard discourages the use of tap controls. They are problematic. You are better off doing your own controls.

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