Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms

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FIGURE 7.23

Grouping multiple controls together

To resize the entire group, put your mouse on the side you want to resize. After the double arrow

appears, click and drag until you reach the desired size. Every control in the group changes in size.

To move the entire group, click and drag the group to its new location. With grouped controls,

you don’t have to select all the controls every time you change something about them.

To remove a group, select the group by clicking any field inside the group, and then select the

Ungroup command from the Layout ribbon’s Control Layout group.

Attaching (and reattaching) a label to a control

If you accidentally delete a label from a control, you can reattach it. To create and then reattach a

label to a control, follow these steps: Later in this chapter, in the “Naming control labels and their

captions” section, you’ll learn about the special relationship between a control and its label. By

default, Access controls include a label when the control is added to a form, and moves around

with the control as you reposition the control on the form. The “Naming control labels and their

captions” section describes these behaviors and how to work with control labels.

1. Click the Label button on the Controls group.


2. Place the mouse pointer in the Form Design window.

The mouse pointer becomes the Text Box button.

3. Click and hold down the mouse button where you want the control to begin; drag the
   mouse to size the control.


4. Type Description: and click outside the control.


5. Select the Description label control.


6. Select Cut from the Home ribbon’s Clipboard group.