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luis wrote: 1) How can I select more than two without have them to follow the mouse pointer ? If not possible I would say this is a bug.

The Visual Basic form designer makes it easy to align a group of controls with one member of the group. Simply select the controls by holding down shift while clicking each control, being sure to click the target control (the one the others will be aligned to) last. Then, select Format|Align, then select Lefts for vertical alignment or Tops for horizontal alignment.

But what if you want to align controls at a specific position rather than to an existing control? For example, you might want to align several TextBox controls so their left edges are all exactly 50 twips from the left edge of the form. Here's how:

Select all the controls as described above. It does not matter which control is selected last.
In the Properties window, enter the desired distance from the left edge of the form in the Left property. Or, to align at a fixed distance from the top of the form, enter the distance in the Top property.

This technique can be extended to other design tasks. When more than one control is selected, the Properties window displays only those properties that are common to all the controls. Changing a property value is automatically applied to all the selected controls.