Form Layout design

Hi All ,
As i have not done something like this before i have forced my self to ask all you, please guide me.
I have 2 tabbed form , 1 tab is displaying data in tabular format and another tab in Form format.
2nd tab is wider than 1st one.
So can anyone suggest how to design layout for this.
Thanks,
Swapnesh

I would suggest you to make 2 frames.
Divide the Canvas into 2 frames. On the left side keep the tabular block and on the right side keep the form layout block.
I presume there would be a relation between these 2 blocks. I have done this a lot of times and it looks decent.
Please mark if the answer was helpful/correct.

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