detached label box from text box

[Guest]

I am a relatively new learner in Access 2000. I need to put field lists (both
label and text boxes) on a form, detached eventually. I used auto wizard to
quickly do that. But the two are attached. Rather than cut and paste the
label to un-attached the pair, is there a way to detach the label boxes from
the text boxes as a group?

It will save me lots of time in typing and/or cutting and pasting. I was not
able to find this discussion on record. My apology, if I missed it.

Thank you in advance for your advice.

 

[Bob Howard]

Do you mean physically detached? You can grab either the text box's handle
or the label's handle and move them independently of one another. Thus they
are not really physically attached (as they display on the form).

Now logical detaching is a different matter as the two are associated with
one another. Personally, I do not like this sort of attachment as I want to
have total "control" over both the control itself and its label --- as two
separate entities.

Once they are created as a pair by the wizard, I don't know how to break the
connection. Perhaps someone will post onto this and give that answer...

Bob.

 

[Justin Hoffman]

Do you mean physically detached? You can grab either the text box's
handle
or the label's handle and move them independently of one another. Thus
they
are not really physically attached (as they display on the form).

Now logical detaching is a different matter as the two are associated with
one another. Personally, I do not like this sort of attachment as I want
to
have total "control" over both the control itself and its label --- as two
separate entities.

Once they are created as a pair by the wizard, I don't know how to break
the
connection. Perhaps someone will post onto this and give that answer...

Bob.

Like the OP said, if you highlight and cut the label, then paste it back
onto the form, they are no longer attached.

 

[Justin Hoffman]

I am a relatively new learner in Access 2000. I need to put field lists
(both
label and text boxes) on a form, detached eventually. I used auto wizard
to
quickly do that. But the two are attached. Rather than cut and paste the
label to un-attached the pair, is there a way to detach the label boxes
from
the text boxes as a group?

It will save me lots of time in typing and/or cutting and pasting. I was
not
able to find this discussion on record. My apology, if I missed it.

Thank you in advance for your advice.

You can select multiple labels by either creating a rectangle with your
cursor, or by placing it the cursor by the edge of the form so it turns into
an arrow capable of selecting all objects in a horizontal or vertical line.

 

[fredg]

I am a relatively new learner in Access 2000. I need to put field lists (both
label and text boxes) on a form, detached eventually. I used auto wizard to
quickly do that. But the two are attached. Rather than cut and paste the
label to un-attached the pair, is there a way to detach the label boxes from
the text boxes as a group?

It will save me lots of time in typing and/or cutting and pasting. I was not
able to find this discussion on record. My apology, if I missed it.

Thank you in advance for your advice.

You can detach multiple labels from their controls by holding down the
shift key as you select each label. Then cut. Paste them, as a group,
wherever you want them.

 

[Guest]

Thank you all. Your assistance resolved my problem. It is so much easier to
process them as group.

As to the "logical connection", my understanding is that once it is cut and
re-paste, the association would be gone. They will exist as two separate
entities. The name can be changed under "property-other".

As well, with Access 2003, next to the re-paste label, there is an
"exclamation mark in a square" indicating the cut in association, if it is
clicked.

Cheers