Michael Kaplan's paper on datasheets
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/li...office.11).aspx states,

"If you need to do the same task with a Form [resize columns programatically to display the data currently in the column], it's even easier: Just set all of the ColumnWidth properties to -2. No extra steps are needed."

So in the Form_Open event procedure on my tabular form I'm setting the ColumnWidth property of each control to -2. But the datasheet view does not properly size the columns. What am I missing?

Thanks much!

AppBuilder

Can you post a link to the article. I am not sure what you are trying to do and the link does not work.


mmcdonal

Thank you for the reply mmcdonal. Here is the link:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa217449(office.11).aspx

I'm trying to programmatically set up a datasheet view so that each column sizes to the width of the data that is being displayed.

Thanks again,
Nadine

AppBuilder

Another question then:

Are you trying to resize the columns on a subform, or form? You mention a tabular form, and datasheets. Datasheets indicates a subform. Perhaps you have this on the wrong form. Open just the subform in design view, and put this code on the SUBform's On Open event.

Did that help?


mmcdonal

Thank you again, mmcdonal.

This is a top level form, not a subform. The columns are filled from a query that changes each time the form is run, so that different columns from the underlying table get displayed on different runs. The user can look at the form in the normal forms view or switch to the datasheet view. In the datasheet view, I'd like the column widths to resize to match the data width.

Thanks much,
Nadine

AppBuilder