>>Is there any way to place the radio buttons anywhere on a form (separated) and not within the bounds of the default container?
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>Use the Option Button, not the Option Group.

Or, increase the size of your Option Group to cover necessary area, make it transparent, set BorderStyle to None, and finally Send To Back. I personally always prefer to handle the optiongroup in one place - in it's InteractiveChange event, not in separate Option Buttons.