Telesphore said:
I'll give an example.
Measuring the official government form, we have
to put one of the control boxes at 15 mm left and
at 27 mm from the top.
Then what would be the equivalent of those measures
in design mode, taking into account that the design
mode starts at 0 mm and that the margins in page mode
are set by default at 25,55 mm left and 25,45 mm
from the top?
Design view of the Report shows the printable area (that is, only area
inside the margins), so you just add the allowance for the margin. If you
have specified (with PageSetup) a top margin of 25mm and a left margin of
35mm, then a Text Box in the Report with Top of 0 mm and Left of 0 mm will
print starting 25 mm from the top edge of the page and 35 mm from the left
edge of the page; a text box with a top of 100 mm and left of 25 mm would
begin 125mm from the top edge of the page and 60 mm from the left edge of
the page.
As John Spencer noted, if you have a left margin of 25,55 mm, you cannot
print at 15 mm from the edge of the paper. Thus, you should use File | Page
setup and specify the margins to be other than the default. (I usually
change the default margins on my reports.) Access will coordinate with the
printer driver to determine the physical minimum and will inform you if you
attempt to make the printer do something of which it is incapable.
Also, as Gina noted, it will sometimes be necessary to hold up the Report
output of trial data on plain paper with the actual form behind it in front
of a light, or a light board if you have one available, and make a few
manual adjustments.
In my experience, Windows / Access measurements are much closer to reality
for Reports than they are for Forms. If you carefully measure, and design a
Form based on those measurements, you may find that what is displayed, if
you measure on-screen, is not very close.
Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
