[AccessD] Highlighting a record in a form

Thomas,

Good to hear it's working!  I like conditional formatting a lot.  Works in
reports too.  (i.e. Priority = A or Status = Late (in red))

Actually, there is code to set and change conditional formatting at runtime,
but it looks a little weird to me so I haven't tried it.

Dan

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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Highlighting a record in a form

I got it! Thanks, everyone, for your help. In the unlikely event that 
someone is as DUH as I am, I'll explain it below.

Many were suggesting conditional formatting, but I could not see how to 
make it apply to an entire row. It's actually very simple. With the form 
in design view, select all of the appropriate fields and choose Format / 
Conditional Formatting from the menubar. On the left, choose "Expression 
is". On the right, type in the controlling expression, such as [ID] = 5. 
Since you've selected all fields, they will all be governed by this one 
expression.

Sorry for being so dense, people. I hadn't used this functionality in 
Access before, so I was trying to figure it out in VBA. Let's hear it for 
trying to reinvent the wheel.

Thanks, again, for your help.

Thomas F. Ewald
Stryker Mass Properties
General Dynamics Land Systems

I'd prefer to do this in datasheet view, but I can use continuous form 
with the fields shown horizontally.

Is there a way to simply tell Access to highlight the 5th record? Not 
every fifth record (although that would be okay, since there are only 8); 
just the fifth. The data comes from a table I create via a make table 
query, so I can control exactly what goes where. I need records 5 & 8 
highlighted n the form. That's all. Seems easy, but I can't seem to get 
it. Feel free to make me feel even more stupid by suggesting an easy 
solution.




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