Access 2002 Programming by Example

Creating a Group of Controls

Access 2002 has the capability to group controls. This is handy for several reasons. You don’t have to continue to select and reselect groups of controls. Now you can group them so that they can be moved, sized, and formatted as a group. They remain grouped even after you exit (providing that you save the report) and reopen the report.

1.	While in the Music Store database, open the Invoice Practice report in Design view. Cursor or mouse-click down until you see the Sub Total, Tax, and Total labels.
2.	Click the Sub Total text box to the right of the Sub Total label. Hold the Shift key down, and click the Tax and Total text boxes.
3.	Choose Format, Group.
4.	Notice that the labels are surrounded by a box. This ...