What's the best way to deal with the stupid selected record indicator bar on the left edge of the screen in List View?? It causes my tabs and such to move a few pixels to the right when switching from a Form layout to a List layout.

1) Is there any way to move it to the right edge of the screen, such that it doesn't disturb the positioning?

2) Is there any way to turn it off, like you can the rest of the status area?

3) Is the only way to deal with this to leave a few (how many?) extra pixels of dead space on the left edge of Form layouts? Ick. (Sometimes I have layouts that work both as Forms and as Views... but I guess I can work around that, too.)

1) No.

2) No.

3) Don't use list views?

-bd

I add three pixels to each of the other form-view layouts, so all the buttons line up nicely.

The other alternative is a portal listing all records via form view, but this has disadvantages in a multi-user environment.

Am I correct to understand that you are using one layout for both a single record view and then also for a list view?

If so - take the extra step and make a new layout just for the list view "Columnar List/Report"

This will solve your problem.