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Identify Minimized Window
Teeka Leone 
     
4 years ago
Hello.  Is there a way to identify (Label) a minimized window?  When our team has many windows opened and minimized there is no native way to identify which window is which.  You have to maximize each one to see which form / object it is.
Teeka Leone OP  @Reply  
     
4 years ago

Adam Schwanz  @Reply  
           
4 years ago
Not that I know of, what you could do instead is resize the form small instead of minimizing, then it should be a little wider and the caption might fit in there. (you'd have to turn off the minimize button and add your own to the form). Or just close the forms all togethor when they move and then add buttons to reopen them to where they were.
Kevin Yip  @Reply  
     
4 years ago
Like Adam says, you have to create custom minimize/restore buttons to resize and move forms accordingly, all with VBA.  If that's too much trouble, consider other means to help you juggle several forms on the screen, such as tab controls (which Richard hates and puts on his Evil Access Stuff list).  I actually used tabbed forms a lot in my old job (see pics below).

P.S. There are always better ways to be had to juggle different screens.  Notice how the concept of resizing/max/minimizing forms doesn't really exist on a smartphone?  Yet we have no trouble switching between apps on it.  Sometimes it takes a paradigm shift in thinking to create a better user interface.
Kevin Yip  @Reply  
     
4 years ago

Teeka Leone OP  @Reply  
     
4 years ago
Thank you both Adam and Kevin!  I simply disabled the minimize option, shrunk them all down to a size where you could read the caption and saved.  I will put this in my user guide as well. so now they can maximize, close or drag the form size the way they want but they will always be able to identify it. I love this forum!

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