Access Form Margin Whitespace

Ok, so this one's been driving me batty for some time now. When I create a form in a new database, I can resize the design window to my heart's content, without any adverse effect to the form's rendered size. However, I also work with another database that was not created by me, and whenever I create a new form, the size of the form is entirely dependent on the size of the design window. This is extremely aggravating, as I have to pixel-by-pixel shrink the form renders the correct size. Is there an option somewhere in access or Form formatting to turn this "functionality" off, so that a form will only render the size that I designated to it, and not to its design window?