在Windows 10下访问2016年相当大的窗体边界太窄

Question

I don't know if this is a general problem with Office 2016, or if it is specific to Windows 10 users, but I find that sizable MDI forms in Access 2016 have a single-pixel border that is very hard to grab with the mouse.

The form borders show as a single-pixel red line, and have no difference in appearance regardless of the mode of the form, whether the mode is "no border", "dialog", "sizable" or "thin". The border appears the same in design mode, as in the example below.

I've tried this on a couple of different computers running Office 2016 under Windows 10, and the problem is the same, so it's not a driver issue. I've opened the database under Office 2010 and Windows 7 and the borders come up at the normal size for Windows 7. I haven't tried Office 2016 under Windows 7 though.

I have to assume that the problem is related to the way that form borders are handled in Windows 10, where the drop-shadow forms part of the draggable area.

Is there any way around this?

Answer 1

Yes and it's a PITA The 2 workarounds I've been using are, 1. 'slide' the mouse along the border you want while vigilantly watching for the curser to change and then go mouse button click. 2. use TAB to cycle through the graphic object then right-click to operate on it (align, size, position).

Answer 2

This tip I have found on the Internet and tried it.

I used playing around with the 2 values BorderWidth and PaddedBorderWidth found with Regedit in the key HKEY_CURRENT_YSER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\WindowMetrics . After setting BorderWidth to -50 and PaddedBorderWidth to 0. The result was that the borders remained approximately 1 pixel wide, but once you selected it, they are shown wider.

Still no solution for the fore mentioned primary question though.