Format Menu

The following commands are available in the Form Designer's Format menu:

• Snap To Grid: Used to enable or disable snapping form elements to the Form Designer's grid. If set to active, the controls will adapt their position to the grid's horizontal and vertical lines during insertion, moving and resizing.
  If you want to place a control outside the grid lines even while snap to grid is activated, you can do this by using Ctrl and the arrow keys (←, →, ↑, ↓).
  If you want to change the control size independently of the grid, use Shift + Ctrl and the arrow keys (←, →, ↑, ↓).
  If you want to change the control size in grid steps, use Shift and the arrow keys (←, →, ↑, ↓).
• Align: align selected controls in relation to each other.
  

  	Left	Align controls to the leftmost selected control.
  	Center	Align the center points of the controls along a horizontal axis.
  	Right	Align controls to the rightmost selected control.
  	Top	Align controls to their topmost selected control.
  	Middle	Align the center points of the controls along a vertical axis.
  	Bottom	Align controls to their bottommost selected control.
  	Grid	Align controls to the Form Designer's grid.

• Match Size : resize selected controls to the same size as the main selected control:
  

  	Width	Match the selected controls' widths.
  	Match to Grid	Match the controls' size to the grid.
  	Height	Match the selected controls' heights.
  	Both	Match both height and width of the selected controls.

• Horizontal Spacing: adjust horizontal spacing between selected controls:
  

  	Space	Space selected controls evenly horizontally.
  	Increase	Increase horizontal spacing between selected controls.
  	Decrease	Decrease horizontal spacing between selected controls.
  	Remove	Remove horizontal spacing between selected controls.

• Vertical Spacing: adjust vertical spacing between selected controls:
  

  	Space	Space selected controls evenly vertically.
  	Increase	Increase vertical spacing between selected controls.
  	Decrease	Decrease vertical spacing between selected controls.
  	Remove	Remove vertical spacing between selected controls.

The menu commands under Align, Match Size, Horizontal Spacing and Vertical Spacing are available only if at least two controls are selected. The last control selected becomes the reference for setting the other controls' properties.

• Center in Form
  

  	Horizontally	Center selected control horizontally on the form.
  	Vertically	Center selected control vertically on the form.

• Arrange
  

  	Bring to Front	Place the control at the top of the stacking order.
  	Send to Back	Place the control below all other selected controls.

• Copy Appearance: Copy the appearance settings of a control to the clipboard for subsequent application to another control.
• Apply Appearance: Apply appearance settings stored in the clipboard to the selected control.
• Lock: Prevent changes to a control.