Back color in forms

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Hi!

For some reasons, I cannot change the color of the back of my forms, either
as a whole, or for a part of it (details, header...). It quite an easy task
(I did that frequently with other programs): click the part of the form I
want to change, click on the background color icon, etc. etc. easy!... but
it doesn't work... I even tried the other way, that is by the Proprieties of
the form or part of it, same results!

Using the same technique, I was easy to change the color of fields or
buttoms...

Help...

 

[Neil]

i dont think the back colour of a form can be changed.
the only thing you can do is enter a picture in the
property's of the form and stretch it. using this method
and a simple paint program and you can get any colour
back you want.

 

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That's not what the various manuals say. Even the Help on
line, please check!

 

[Gary Miller]

In the Format section of the properties of your Detail and
Header and Footer sections you will find a BackColor line.
Clicking at the right side of the entry line will get you a
color picker to help.

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[DanK]

OF COURSE YOU CAN CHANGE THE BACKCOLOR OF FORMS. Why do
you think there's an option to do so?!!!

What you're probably looking at is that you have a tiled
picture on the form. Click on the gray square at the top
left corner of the form where the rulers meet and look at
the "Picture" property. If there's a picture there,
delete it and your backcolor should appear. If not, email
me and we WILL figure this our together! Guaranteed!

 

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Thanks, Gary,

That's the point: I tried what you suggest and It doesn't
work. The back color option is there in many windows
programs and I have used it quite a lot in many
documents, especially with Excel. But in this particular
case, with Access forms, it doesn't work!

g

 

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Dank,

That's exactly what I was thinking: is the option is
there, it means that the capacity is there to change the
backcolor of a form. As I was saying to an other fellow,
I have used over and over that option with many other
windows programs (Excel, for example) and it worked. But
in that particular case, the backgroud of a form, somehow
it DOESN'T work, I swear!!!!!

I tried what you told me: there is no picture already
loaded in the backgroup (the property picture has this
message: (bitmap), no picture. I was thinking that maybe,
somewhere, ther is a "Block color option" or something to
disabled, whick is close to your suggestion.

OK, I am in waiting that "we WILL figure this our
together! Guaranteed!"

with thanks,

gm

 

[fredg]

Dank,

That's exactly what I was thinking: is the option is
there, it means that the capacity is there to change the
backcolor of a form. As I was saying to an other fellow,
I have used over and over that option with many other
windows programs (Excel, for example) and it worked. But
in that particular case, the backgroud of a form, somehow
it DOESN'T work, I swear!!!!!

I tried what you told me: there is no picture already
loaded in the backgroup (the property picture has this
message: (bitmap), no picture. I was thinking that maybe,
somewhere, ther is a "Block color option" or something to
disabled, whick is close to your suggestion.

OK, I am in waiting that "we WILL figure this our
together! Guaranteed!"

with thanks,

gm

Regarding: < (the property picture has this message: (bitmap), no
picture. <

This is where your difficulty is.
The Form was made using the Form Wizard, and a style was chosen; Stone,
Globe, Night scene, etc.
The style is a bitmap picture
In the Picture property line, delete
(Bitmap)
and write:
(none)
with the parenthesis, as the picture property.

Now the backcolor will show. You'll need to set the backcolor of each
section.

 

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Many thanks to Fred because, YES, it works!

Thanks

bm