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Zoom in or out of forms, tables, and queries when in Form View or Datasheet View

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May 19, 2026

Access now lets you zoom in and out when you’re working with forms, tables, and queries in Form View or Datasheet View. Zoom in for a closer look at your data or zoom out to see more on screen at once.

Access now lets you zoom in and out when you’re working with forms, tables, and queries in Form View or Datasheet View. Zoom in for a closer look at your data or zoom out to see more on screen at onc...
Updated May 19, 2026
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HeinziAT
Iron Contributor
May 20, 2026

This is great news, we know that some of our customers will be very happy about this feature!

 

One question: Are there any backwards-compatibility issues with this new feature that we Access developers should be aware of? For example, adding the Regex class to VBA broke binary compatibility with the LTSC versions. Should we prepare for something similar, or has this issue been considered during development?

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    lindalu-MSFT
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    May 26, 2026

    As Maria stated, zooming is only available in M365 Access build 2605 or later. We'll be adding the following to VBA and I'll update the documentation shortly (sometime in June 2026)

    Forms and reports

    • Me.Zoom = zoomPercentage
        zoomPercentage: An integer between 50 and 500.
    • Forms("Form Name").Zoom = 500 (forms only)
    • Reports("Report Name").Zoom = 500 (reports only)

     

    For all object types (tables, queries, forms, reports)

    Application.Zoom = zoomPercent (this will zoom the current active table or query window)

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    MariaBarnes
    MVP
    May 21, 2026

    HeinziAT​ Zooming is only available in Microsoft 365.  The Regex class was a VBA update that was available to multiple versions.  Backward compatibility should not be an issue at least at this time.  If/when programmatic options get added for this feature, I am confident that Microsoft will take backward compatibility into account.