access: centering controls on report

Question

thanks to hansup i have a bunch of fields on a report, i would like to center the enter block of controls. how do i do it?

Answer 1

Generally, if I need to center something on the report, I'll make the control as wide as the report is, then center the text in the control.

You could figure out where the center of your report is, then figure out where the center of the control is and align the center of the control with the center of the report. I generally find this is more effort than I want when I can do the above option.

Answer 2

Microsoft Access forms and reports aren't intended to do automatic resizing and layout. Unless you have very special requirements, you can just make sure that the report canvas is the same width as the printed page, then manually position the controls in the center of the canvas (in design view).