Datasheet

❑ Center in Form — This submenu contains commands that center the selected controls on the
form. It contains the commands Horizontally and Vertically. Note that the selected controls are
centered as a group; they are not centered individually on top of each other.
❑ Order — This submenu contains the commands Bring to Front and Send to Back, which move
the selected controls to the top or bottom of the stacking order.
❑ Lock Controls — This command locks all of the controls on the form so that they cannot be
moved or resized by clicking and dragging. You can still move and resize the controls by chang-
ing their Location and Size properties in the Properties window. Invoking this command again
unlocks the controls. Locking the controls can be useful if you have spent a long time position-
ing them precisely. After they are locked, you can work on the controls without fear of acciden-
tally messing up your careful design.
Tools
The Tools menu, shown in Figure 1-38, contains miscellaneous tools that do not fit particularly well in
the other menus. It also contains a few duplicates of commands in other menus and commands that
modify the IDE itself.
Figure 1-38: The Tools menu contains miscellaneous commands and commands that modify the IDE.
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