[AccessD] Access 2007 Form Colors question

2003 help:
<quote>
About using a template to create a form or report
When you create a form or report without using a wizard, Microsoft Access uses a template 
to define the default characteristics of the form or report.

The template determines which sections a form or report will have and defines each section's 
dimensions. The template also contains all the default property settings for the form or report 
and its sections and controls. However, a template doesn't create controls on a new form or 
report.

The default templates for forms and reports are called Normal. However, you can use any 
existing form or report as a template. You can also create a form or report to use only as a 
template. Changing the template doesn't have any effect on existing forms or reports.

Microsoft Access saves the settings for the Form Template and Report Template options in 
your Microsoft Access workgroup information file, not in your Microsoft Access database (the 
.mdb file) or Microsoft Access project (the .adp file). When you change an option setting, the 
change applies to any Access database or Access project you open or create.

If your templates are not in an Access database or Access project, Microsoft Access uses 
the Normal template for any new forms and reports you create. However, the names of your 
templates appear in the Form Template and Report Template options in every Access 
database or Access project in your database system, even if the templates are not in every 
Access database or Access project.
</quote>



On 26 Jun 2011 at 14:55, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> Speaking of which, it would appear that Access defaults the
> layout of both forms and reports to something called "Normal". To what
> does that term refer?
> 
> Does it mean that should I create a form|report called Normal within a
> given database, all subsequent forms would emulate the same look and
> feel (i.e. header, detail and footer formats, generic buttons placed
> either on the Header or the Footer, all Header and Detail and Footer
> colors etc. copied, even a UsualSuspects set of default buttons or
> URLs, depending on your "Normal" preferences. Etc. 
...
> Even assuming this, my guess is that the concepts of "Normal" are
> app-specific "normal", whatever it is in the immediate case -- could
> be Single-Form with headers|footers like so, etc.s that their
> definitions apply to all apps rather than this specific app. IMO, a
> bad idea.