Question : How to completely hide columns in Access 2007

I have an Access report that I want to have display certain columns based on parameters that I pass to it.  I can almost acheive the effect that I want be setting the width of the columns I want to hide to 0 and the visible parameter to false, but that still leaves space on the report for the borders around the textboxes.  I've tried setting the BorderStyle property to 0 or 1, the BorderWidth property to 0 etc. without luck.  Any ideas?
Additional weird effect: setting the BorderStyle property seems to re-order the columns in the report unpredictably.

Currently, I set all the columns in question to 'invisible':
    UnitCount.Width = 0
    UnitCount.Visible = False
    UnitCount.BorderStyle = 0  '0= transparent 1=solid
    UnitCount.BorderWidth = 0  '0=hairline other = pt
    UnitCount.GridlineWidthLeft = 0
    UnitCount.GridlineWidthRight = 0
   
And then set the ones I want to see to 'visible':
    If (InStr(1, args, "M") > 0) Then
        typeCount = typeCount + 1
        UnitCount.Width = 0.4354 * 1440
        UnitCount.Visible = True
        UnitCount.BorderStyle = 1
    End If
But this leaves gaps between the textboxes, which isn't acceptable for me.

Answer : How to completely hide columns in Access 2007

Here is one with "Borders"

Again, let me know if this is what you want

;-)

JeffCoachman

Access--Basic-SampleSelectHideSh.mdb (212 KB) (File Type Details) 

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