Microsoft KB Archive/153306

= How To Speed up Alignment of Controls with Triple-Click =

Article ID: 153306

Article Last Modified on 7/13/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

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SUMMARY
When you are in the design environment placing controls on a form, it is often useful to size a set of controls to the same size or align a set of controls to the same Top or Left edge. The triple click feature in Visual Basic 4.0 and later gives you this functionality. The step-by-step example in this article shows how to set the left alignment and size properties for a set of text boxes to the same values.



Step-by-Step Example

 * 1) Start a new Visual Basic project. Form1 is created by default.
 * 2) Place three text boxes on Form1 named Text1, Text2, and Text3.
 * 3) Position and size the text boxes so that they are different sizes and don't line up on the left edge.
 * 4) Select one of the text boxes. Hold down the CTRL key, and click the other two text boxes. All three text boxes should be highlighted.
 * 5) Press F4 to show the Properties window. Go to the Left Property and triple-click the word Left. All the text boxes should now have the same Left property and therefore line up on the left side.
 * 6) In the Properties window, triple-click the word Height, and then triple- click the word Width. All the text boxes will now be the same size.

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