Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Aligning and resizing sheet objects
When we look at the results so far, we will notice that it looks very unorganized
(as seen in the following screenshot). The objects are all over the place and are not
aligned with the background. Of course, this is not very convenient for the user,
so let's see how we can solve it.
Selecting objects
To select a single object, simply click on its caption. To select multiple objects, activate
all of them by either clicking and dragging around them with the mouse cursor
("lassoing"), or by clicking on their captions while keeping the
Shift
key pressed.
Moving objects
Objects (or a selected group of objects) can be moved by clicking on the caption bar
and dragging them to the desired location. Objects without a caption (for example,
the listboxes showing
Year
,
Quarter
, and
Month
that we created earlier) can be
dragged by holding
Alt
and clicking and dragging anywhere on the object. This
method also works for objects with a visible caption, and even for objects where
Allow Move/Size
is disabled.
Holding
Ctrl
while pressing the arrow keys moves the active object(s) 1 pixel at a
time. Use
Ctrl
+
Shift
to move them in 10-pixel steps.
