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Lesson 7-7: Control Property Reference
Every control on a form or report has dozens of different control properties or settings—so how do you keep them all straight? Here’s how—this lesson is really a cheat sheet that you can use whenever you’re not sure what exactly a particular control property is or does. The most important properties are marked with a .
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Description
Caption
Format
Displays a descriptive caption for a form or text label.
Format
Format
Customizes the way numbers, dates, times, and text are displayed and printed.
Decimal Places
Format
Determines the number of decimal places displayed.
Visible
Format
Show or hides a control. Useful if you want to use information on the form without it being visible. For example, you could use the value in a hidden control as the criteria for a query.
Display When
Format
Determines whether a section or control always appears or only appears when it is displayed on screen or printed.
Scroll Bars
Format
Determines whether scroll bars appear in the control.
Left
Format
Determines the horizontal position of the control.
Top
Format
Determines the vertical position of the control.
Width
Format
Determines the width of a control.
Height
Format
Determines the height of a control.
Back Style
Format
Determines whether a control is transparent or not.
Back Color
Format
Determines the color of a control. Click the color from a palette.
Special Effect
Format
Applies a 3-D effect to a control.
Border Style
Format
Determines the line style of a control’s border—select from transparent lines, solid lines, dashed lines, etc.
Border Color
Format
Determines the color of a control’s border. Click the select a color from a palette.
Border Width
Format
Determines the width of a control’s border (in points).
Fore Color
Format
Determines the color of text in a control or the fill color of an object. Click the button to select a color from a palette.
Font Name
Format
Determines the font used in a control (such as Arial or Times New Roman).
Font Weight
Format
Determines the thickness (boldface) of text in a control.
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Table 7-4: Common Form and Report Control Properties
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