[AccessD] Default Form and Report

You just give it the name Normal, for both the form and the report.
They are useful in setting up things like colors, fonts, and the default
size and characteristics of specific control types, but you won't get
the header, footer, and command buttons.  It saves you having to fight
with fonts, etc., but the inheritance is minimal.  I usually put stuff
like headers, footers and buttons on subforms anyhow and then just drop
them on the forms that needed them. 

Charlotte Foust

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:11 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Default Form and Report

In all my years of Access development, I have never touched these items
(which are located on the Options page). I have no idea how to use them,
and also no idea whether they are app-specific or system-wide. How does
one use them? Do I create a form/report with the desired header and
footer and perhaps also command buttons (on the form), and then give it
a name such as "Normal_frm" and "Normal_rpt" and then everything I've
done to them gets copied to any new form or report I create?

If so, that would be a very nice time-saving feature.

Thanks,
Arthur
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