Can't set the form 'style' after the fact...

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Brad Pears

When you use the form wizard to generate a form, at one point you are asked
to pick a style for the form. There is about 10 of them there to choose from
(blends, blkueprint, industrial, expedition etc...etc...). On one of my
forms I have selected a different style (expedition) than most others. The
problem is I cannot find anywhere to reset that after the fact. I figured
there would be a 'style' proprerty but guess what?? No such luck!

Does anyone have any clue how to reset this after the fact???

Thanks,

Brad
 
Brad said:
When you use the form wizard to generate a form, at one point you are asked
to pick a style for the form. There is about 10 of them there to choose from
(blends, blkueprint, industrial, expedition etc...etc...). On one of my
forms I have selected a different style (expedition) than most others. The
problem is I cannot find anywhere to reset that after the fact. I figured
there would be a 'style' proprerty but guess what?? No such luck!

Does anyone have any clue how to reset this after the fact???
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No way! The style you selected just told the wizard what to
use to create the form, and once created, the wizard is out
of the picture. You can either scrap that form and use the
wizard to create a new one or you can open the form in
design view and move the controls around yourself.
 
When you use the form wizard to generate a form, at one point you are asked
to pick a style for the form. There is about 10 of them there to choose from
(blends, blkueprint, industrial, expedition etc...etc...). On one of my
forms I have selected a different style (expedition) than most others. The
problem is I cannot find anywhere to reset that after the fact. I figured
there would be a 'style' proprerty but guess what?? No such luck!

Does anyone have any clue how to reset this after the fact???

Thanks,

Brad
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If by 'Style" you mean the picture (colors, etc) of the form
background, that's easy enough to change.
Open the Form in design view.
Click on
Format + AutoFormat

Select one of the other ones. Save the change.

(Note: You can use any bmp, gif, jpg, etc. type of file as form
background. Your not limited to the Access ones. Just browse the
Form's Picture Property to the picture, and set the next 4 Picture
properties as needed.)

If you don't want any of those 'styles' type (none) (including the
parenthesis) as the Form's Picture property and you can then use the
form's backcolor property to set colors.

If by 'style' you mean the physical layout of the controls on the
form, you must rearrange those manually. Just drag them to where you
want them.
 
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