[AccessD] Alt-Size to grid

[Rocky Smolin]

I've used the group of shortcuts I sent JC in my second response for
decades. It's just a mnemonic - once learned it becomes automatic.  Doesn't
have to be an acronym.

r

On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 11:32 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Alignment Go? Don't get me started... I could waste this afternoon
> thinking about "what could it possibly mean? In what twisted Microsoftie
> mind?"
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 1:30 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well... when you drag and drop controls they are not sized to the grid.
> I
> > thought that in the olden days before electricity, there was an "expand
> to
> > grid".  Maybe not though.
> >
> > Alt-O A G is ok.  What does it mean?
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 11:06 AM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > If Align to Grid is what you're trying to do then Alt-O-A-G.
> > >
> > > r
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 6:13 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Alt-E-G
> > > >
> > > > back in the day, Alt-E G (expand to grid) would take a selected group
> > of
> > > > controls and expand all of them to line up all the borders to the
> grid.
> > > > When I try to do that now, Access just pops up a box telling me to
> > > continue
> > > > typing the menu sequence from an earlier version of office...
> > > >
> > > > Except that I continue but it doesn't expand the control's outline to
> > the
> > > > grid.
> > > >
> > > > Any idea how that is done now?  Or is my memory failing and Alt-E G
> > just
> > > > not what I used to do?
> > > >
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