You just set the line spacing and character spacing to something negative. They'll still not be able to read anything, but all their requirements are met. If they're still not happy, it's obviously because they're stupid to an extent even they should be able to fathom, right? Right.

at least when this happens all you have to do is make cosmetic changes... dragging contols on your form is a lot easier than recoding :)

Yep, because that's all VB is. It's just a big wizard and it writes all the code for me and I never have to take my hand off the mouse. Yessir. It even wrote the template parser all by itself. Talk about easy to use.

Don't tell anyone, but VB actually wrote the program all by itself in about two minutes. I spent the rest of the year and a half trolling on Slashdot.

Why don't all the replies here fit on one page - is my font too small? ;)

p.s. - happy 7x3'd

I program VB too, I'm saying that when it comes to moving controls closer together, its not so bad, unless you actually have to change code.

Yeesh

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I work at a mortgage company doing their systems work and I get that same problem, only for faxes. People will come up to me and tell me the machine is broke because now their fax is on two pages instead of one. They just can't understand that if you add more words, it takes up more space. They say stuff like, "Well, I should be able to add stuff and have it be on one page still". Each time I have to explain that there is a set content amount you can put on a piece of paper, and if you go over that amount it will move to the next paper.

You mean when I graduate and work at a nice job instead of a convenience store, I am still going to have to deal with people like this?

what software were you working on for over a year? id like to take a look

-r4wb

They're everywhere man. :(

<Pats pet troll on head>

You know, some people (like wonko) have jobs where they write software. You don't get to look at that stuff. It's what they call proprietary.

I had pet trolls when I was little. They had tufts of brightly-coloured hair, and I worked out a complex family tree and a genetic theory of troll hair color.

Just wanted to congratulate you on the completion of your 21st trip around the sun. Have a great day!

Thanks!

And they were naked.

Not mostly; the manufacturers realized that they could sell many identical trolls if they came in different little outfits.

And some barbaric person decided they could sell even more by by sticking baby trolls on colorful spikes that write1

When I was a wee lad in school, I always thought those baby trolls with pencils in their rectums were very pornographic and, by extension, hilarious.

That's a nice little kick in the pants....I sympathize with ya wonko...."Keep on truckin' ;o)"