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Add a panel to your form, and set its Dock property to top. Then right click on the panel and select "SendToBack" this will put the panel at the top of the form, above your menustrip. Then you can add labels to this panel, and position them however you want. This will give you more freedom over the layout of things, since trying to use just a menustrip, or labels on top of it, or toolstrip, will limit your options.