[AccessD] How to Hide Existing Text Boxes and Labels on an Access Report

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Sat Mar 2 10:12:42 CST 2013


If you put the controls into a group, you can just hide the group section.
 Grouping is available on an arbitrary value or you could group on whatever
the key is and then divvy the rest of the controls up into the group header
and footer.

Charlotte

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Brad Marks <BradM at blackforestltd.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have a complicated one-page report that has many Text Boxes and Labels.
>
> Recently a need has surfaced, where I need to temporarily “hide” a section
> of this report (about 40 text boxes and labels).
>
> The need to hide these controls may occur once or twice a month.
>
> Instead of making the 40 controls “invisible”, I was hoping to simply add
> a new Label to cover up the existing 40 controls.  Also, the new label
> would have text to explain why the 40 controls are not being shown.
>
> Is there a way to do this?  I have reviewed the “Property Sheet” for the
> new label but I can’t see how to make this happen.
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
>
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