how can change the back color of a disabled textbox?

Dear all,
In order to prevent the accidental editing of records, I've set all the
textbox controls to Disabled state so that the user can't amend the records
accidentially unless one button is clicked to enable all the textboxes.
However, my colleagues complained that in such way, it's very hard for them
to view the field's data in the textbox, since it's disabled and the color is
very dim. Now, how can I do to change the color of the textbox even if it is
in disabled state?
Or should I use any other method to prevent the accidental editing of records
in textboxes?

Thanks so much!!!
Gary

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Set the Enabled property to No and the Locked property to Yes. That will
remove the "greyed-out" color and leave the textbox looking the same as if
were unlocked and enabled.

Often, when this is done, it's good to change the Special Effect from the
default sunken value to the flat value so that the user knows/sees something
is different about the textbox.
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Ken Snell
MS ACCESS MVP



"hkgary33 via AccessMonster.com" u23950@uwe wrote in message
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Dear all,
In order to prevent the accidental editing of records, I've set all the
textbox controls to Disabled state so that the user can't amend the
records
accidentially unless one button is clicked to enable all the textboxes.
However, my colleagues complained that in such way, it's very hard for
them
to view the field's data in the textbox, since it's disabled and the color
is
very dim. Now, how can I do to change the color of the textbox even if it
is
in disabled state?
Or should I use any other method to prevent the accidental editing of
records
in textboxes?

Thanks so much!!!
Gary

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