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Centering a Form using VBA

Tags: vba, form, access, center
Hi all,

I'm using Access 2007 and I'm attempting to address an issue with a continuous form seemingly taking whatever height it feels like when I open it (and changes on different PCs).  I've found a tentative solution in VBA that works great but has a drawback - everything goes to the left.

Here's what I have in the form's Activate event:
Me.Move Left:=10, Top:=10, Height:=7500

This addresses the height issue perfectly.  No matter what state I leave the window in while I'm designing, it always gets sized to 7500 twips upon Load.  The bad part is, I have no way of knowing the total screen width and therfore cannot set the "Left" property above to a valid number to get it centered.  I've tried all different combinations of Screen.Width, etc. including "Me.Move Left:=((Screen.Width / 2) - (Me.Width / 2))" but it just doesn't work (it doesn't move at all).  Setting the form's property to Auto Center doesn't work either - this is overridden by the VBA code.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
David
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