Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Dec 10 12:36:55 CST 2003
Select the control on the Normal form or report the select Set Control Defaults from the design menu. If you don't do that, it doesn't override the existing "normal" defaults. You can do the same thing on any form or report to set the default for that kind of control for that particular object as well. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Michael Brosdorf [mailto:michael.broesdorf at web.de] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:31 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: AW: [AccessD] Form/report templates How do I set control defaults? I thought I just had to insert a control and format it the way I want new controls to be!? Michael -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Charlotte Foust Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 18:46 An: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Betreff: RE: [AccessD] Form/report templates Hmmn. Did you remember to set the Control Defaults for that textbox on the Normal form? Otherwise, it won't be applied. If you do set it, it works in XP on my machine. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Michael Brosdorf [mailto:michael.broesdorf at web.de] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 9:15 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: AW: [AccessD] Form/report templates Just tested it on another machine: 1. Created a new form 2. Created a text box with a label. Set the label font color to blue and the border style to transparent 3. Save the new form as 'Normal' 4. Created a new form and inserted a text box -> it is not formatted as the one on 'Normal' (Under options, the name of the template form is 'Normal') Since it does not work on two machines, is there anything else needed to be turned on? Michael -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Charlotte Foust Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 18:01 An: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Betreff: RE: [AccessD] Form/report templates I haven't tried it with backcolor, but it certainly works for other kinds of control properties, but only on new forms created after the "normal" version is saved. That's the way it has always worked. Were you trying to do something else? Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Michael Brosdorf [mailto:michael.broesdorf at web.de] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:47 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Form/report templates Dear group, recently I wanted to demonstrate the use or forms/report named 'Normal' in Access 2K. From what I know, a developer can created these forms/reports to defined format defaults for controls. In the Access options one can even define the name for those format templates. The only problem is that it does not seem to work anymore! I thinkg it worked in A97: a form named 'Normal' containing a text box with green back color would cause all newly created text boxes on other forms to have the same green back color. How does this feature work in A2K? TIA, Michael _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com