>After testing this, it looks to me like the Padding is respected when the controls are docked but not when anchored. Which in many cases does not help all that much since in my case I do not want the controls docked. Whole thing seems kind of lame and inconsistent to me, but maybe I just don't fully understand the purpose/methodology of Padding in the Winforms environment.

Don't ask me, I don't use Padding. <g> I got it to work only partially with anchoring, so that was pretty useless. It sure looks like if you can't dock your control, then you can't use the Padding, so I guess I don't fully understand how it was intended to be used either.

~~Bonnie