Sliding controls in a form

You can specify that you want to eliminate blank lines or spaces in a form by sliding columns and other controls to the left or up if there is blank space. You can use this feature to remove extra spaces between fields (such as first name and last name) when you run the form.

StepsTo use sliding columns or controls:

  1. Select Properties from the pop-up menu of the controls and then select the Position tab in the Properties view:

    Shown is a sample Position tab page of the Properties view. It displays boxes for window settings.  X is set to 508, Y to 517, Width to 526, Height to 57. Next is a drop down list box labeled Slide up with the value None and cleared check boxes for Slide Left and Autosize Height.
  2. Select the Slide options you want.

    Option

    Description

    Slide Left

    Slide the column or control to the left if there is nothing to the left. Be sure the control does not overlap the control to the left. Sliding left does not work if the controls overlap.

    Slide Up - All Above

    Slide the column or control up if there is nothing in the row above (the row above must be completely empty for the column or control to slide up).

    Slide Up - Directly Above

    Slide the column or control up if there is nothing directly above it in the row above.

NoteIf you are sliding columns up Even blank columns have height, so if you want columns to slide up, you need to specify as Autosize Height all columns above that might be blank and that you want to slide other columns up through. You also specify Autosize Height on the Position property page.