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appear on nonvisual components, and the handles can be dragged, but
the results of the dragging operation will be ignored.
Groups of controls cannot be sized by dragging. The sizing handles (black squares) are
replaced by selection indicators (gray squares) when you select more than one component.
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To size all the components in a group at one time, modify the Width or
Height property in the Object Inspector or use the Size dialog box (the
Size dialog is discussed in the section “Sizing Components”). All
components in the selection will take on the new values.
To size a control or group of controls one pixel at a time, hold down
the Shift key and press any of the arrow keys on the keyboard. The up
and down arrows will size the control vertically, and the right and left
arrows will size the control horizontally. Only the Width and Height
properties of the component are affected. The Top and Left properties
are not modified.
Sizing with the Size Dialog Box
Another sizing option is the Size dialog box. You can bring up the Size dialog box by choosing
Edit | Size from the main menu. Figure 7.8 shows the Size dialog box.
Figure 7.8.
The Size dialog box.
This dialog box is used when you want to force a group of controls to the same width or
height. For instance, let’s say you had six edit components on a form, all with different widths.
To make the form appear more balanced, you might want to make all the edit components
the same width. You would first select the components and then invoke the Size dialog box.
From there you could choose Shrink to Smallest in the Width column to make all the
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