The HELP file (CreateControl Method) says this and provides this example:

The CreateControl method creates a control on a specified open form. For
example, suppose you are building a custom wizard that allows users to easily
construct a particular form. You can use the CreateControl method in your
wizard to add the appropriate controls to the form.

Example
The following example first creates a new form based on an Orders table. It
then uses the CreateControl method to create a text box control and an
attached label control on the form.

Sub NewControls()
Dim frm As Form
Dim ctlLabel As Control, ctlText As Control
Dim intDataX As Integer, intDataY As Integer
Dim intLabelX As Integer, intLabelY As Integer

' Create new form with Orders table as its record source.
Set frm = CreateForm
frm.RecordSource = "Orders"
' Set positioning values for new controls.
intLabelX = 100
intLabelY = 100
intDataX = 1000
intDataY = 100
' Create unbound default-size text box in detail section.
Set ctlText = CreateControl(frm.Name, acTextBox, , "", "", _
intDataX, intDataY)
' Create child label control for text box.
Set ctlLabel = CreateControl(frm.Name, acLabel, , _
ctlText.Name, "NewLabel", intLabelX, intLabelY)
' Restore form.
DoCmd.Restore
End Sub


"chriske911" wrote:

is there a way to have a bunch of controls created by using code?
I always replace the default record navigation buttons by my own custom
command buttons
this is something I have done thousands of times so far

thnx