make Form Resizer for Access an integral part of Access

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Forms & data change when changing screen resolution. The should be kept the
same no matter what resolution I use, Otherwise all forms and fonts in them
must be manually changed - a real pain in the neck. MS Word docs stay the
same so why can Access forms. Form Resiser is supposed to fiz this, but I'm
not a programer, and re3ally should not have to be one - I don't with Word so
why is Access any different ?
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[Rick Brandt]

Forms & data change when changing screen resolution. The should be
kept the same no matter what resolution I use, Otherwise all forms
and fonts in them must be manually changed - a real pain in the neck.
MS Word docs stay the same so why can Access forms. Form Resiser is
supposed to fiz this, but I'm not a programer, and re3ally should not
have to be one - I don't with Word so why is Access any different ?

MS Word docs DON'T stay the same. Neither do Excel files. They do however have
a zoom feature which would allow you to adjust the zoom on different resolutions
so that what you see is the same on all of them. If you run either of those
programs on different resolutions and consistently at 100% zoom level then you
will definitely have to scroll more on the lo-res screen compared to a hi-res
screen.

In fact there are very few software programs that attempt to use the same amount
of screen on different resolutions. There is a good reason for this. Users
would not want it. Users spend more money on higher resolution displays so they
can see MORE not the same thing only bigger. If they wanted the latter they
would buy larger displays and run them at the same lower resolution as a smaller
one.

As a developer you have to consider the lowest resolution that your app needs to
support and design your forms accordingly. On average, users will have lower
resolution displays than developers do so you can't just blindly build forms
that take up your whole screen and expect them to be usable.

For years the "standard" min-res-spec was 800 by 600. In Access that would mean
keeping your forms at around 7 inches wides and around 4 inches tall. Lately
more developers are moving to 1024 by 768 as the minimum spec that they design
to. You will see either of these on most web pages you visit.

By the way, this is not that easy to achieve which is why MS hasn't built it
into the product. The resizing utility you mentioned is far from perfect. For
people who want that capability the imperfections can be lived with, but it
would look pretty shoddy if those same features were built in and didn't work a
lot better.