Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Wed Dec 10 14:50:35 CST 2003
True, I had forgotten about that. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Susan Harkins [mailto:ssharkins at bellsouth.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:42 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Form/report templates Well, there's another way too -- after clicking the particular control on the Toolbox, change the properties in the Properties window and then insert the control -- that will change the defaults for that particular control too. Susan H. > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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