Annoying Auto-resize of Captions

[gnosis13]

I may be overlooking something simple here so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. How do you stop Access (2003) from auto-resizing captions when you type in the text?

I am working with another person to create a DB that replaces a written form. I can lay the form out to look exactly like the printed version by making the caption's & text boxes height, width, and left properties adhere to simple increments of an inch...like 1" or 1.5., etc. However, Access seems to think I need to use much better numbers like 1.0087654434" or something stupid like that. This is a nightmare when you have 40 or 50 fields and captions perfectly aligned.

I have dicovered that the auto-resize doesn't occur if you type in the dimensions in the properties window without clicking on the control, so, I assume there must be some way to just turn this "feature" off.

A+, N+, MCP

 

[JoeAtWork]

I've always found that annoying too, but not to the degree where I looked for a way to turn it off (I don't think there is).

One technique I often use is to first just roughly lay out all my controls. Then I multi-select all the ones that will have the same property value and set that property once. For instance, if I have 10 textboxes whose Left property should be 1.5, I select all ten and then type in the 1.5 in the Left property.