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Tablets Rotating Screen
Stephen Joers 
    
4 years ago
I am wondering how to keep my form formatting when I am using my Surface Pro.  I do inspections in the field and lose my formatting when the screen rotates.
Adam Schwanz  @Reply  
           
4 years ago
Can you not just lock the tablet from rotating?

When you say form formatting, do you mean it's placement on the screen kind of thing? I don't think you can control that with the resolution change.
Scott Axton  @Reply  
        
4 years ago
To the best of my knowledge there isn't anything native in Access to control screen orientation.
Your best bet is to look into the settings for your Surface Pro and turn off rotation hopefully only for that application.

Otherwise you might try to design your screen for the "common" orientation that you use it in.
Or design the form for the narrowest "view" and that way it would be visible if the screen is horizontal.

Stephen Joers OP  @Reply  
    
4 years ago
I can stop it from rotating and I have made a second form for "Tablet Layout".  I could put a "Switch" button to move between forms, I just want to see if anyone had any tricks for resizing for the orientation change.

Thank you Adam and Scott.
Richard Rost  @Reply  
          
4 years ago
I don't think Access can be made aware of the screen orientation. It's still very much a desktop application.

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