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Changing the color of a button on a form
Can you change the color of the button in design view? If so how?
I want the button to be white and the wording to be black. The back ground of the form is gray. TIA Rebecca S. Access 2002, SP3 |
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Changing the color of a button on a form
When I search the microsoft website it sends me to these directions (which
are for 2003) and in 2002 it doesn't give me the option of the Fill/Back Color on the tool bar it is shaded out. 1.. Open a form, report, or data access page in Design view (Design view: A window that shows the design of these database objects: tables, queries, forms, reports, macros, and data access pages. In Design view, you can create new database objects and modify the design of existing ones.). 2.. Click the control (control: A graphical user interface object, such as a text box, check box, scroll bar, or command button, that lets users control the program. You use controls to display data or choices, perform an action, or make the user interface easier to read.) or section (section: A part of a form, report, or data access page such as a header, footer, or detail section.) that you want to change. 3.. On the Form/Report Formatting or Page Formatting toolbar, click the arrow next to Fill/Back Color . 4.. Click a color in the palette. Rebecca S. "Rebecca" wrote in message ... Can you change the color of the button in design view? If so how? I want the button to be white and the wording to be black. The back ground of the form is gray. TIA Rebecca S. Access 2002, SP3 |
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Changing the color of a button on a form
CoomandButton control's do not expose a BackColor property. For a
workaround see: http://www.lebans.com/cmdbutton.htm CommandButton.zip is a database containing functions to allow a user defined BackColor and Rotated Text for Command Buttons. NEW - Jan. 26/2000 This version includes 2 functions. One for Form Design view and one for Form View at Runtime. 1) Use API Color Dialog to select BackColor. 2) User Selectable degrees of rotation for Text in controls Caption. 3) Use in Form Design or Form View at Runtime. -- HTH Stephen Lebans http://www.lebans.com Access Code, Tips and Tricks Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit. "Rebecca" wrote in message ... Can you change the color of the button in design view? If so how? I want the button to be white and the wording to be black. The back ground of the form is gray. TIA Rebecca S. Access 2002, SP3 |
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Changing the color of a button on a form
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:07:12 -0500, Rebecca wrote:
Can you change the color of the button in design view? If so how? I want the button to be white and the wording to be black. The back ground of the form is gray. TIA Rebecca S. Access 2002, SP3 Not using Access as delivered. 1) You can use an unbound label, color it as you wish. Set it's SpecialEffects property to Raised, and code it's Mouse Up event (LabelName.SpecialEffect = 1) and Mouse Down event (LabelName.SpecialEffect = 2) to simulate movement. Then code the label's click event as you would a command button. 2) Set a white colored background as the Command Button Picture property. You can use MSPaint to create the white picture background. (Include the caption in the MSPaint picture, not in the command button caption property.) A small bit of practice to get the size right, but once you do it it's easy. 3) See http://www.lebans.com for his command button work-around. -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. |
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