I need some alternatives to what Access offers for images
on their buttons.
Does anyone know of a good place to download some? What I
really need is letters. Like a fancy capital A.
Thanks!
It took me 5 minutes to make my own "fancy capital A" and place it on
a command button. Most of that 5 minutes was trying to find a "fancy"
enough capital A on my computer.
Check through the available fonts on your computer for a suitable font
style. Remember, some font style capital letters are not the same
style as their lower case letter, but a completely different shape. So
look at the capitals, not just the lower case letters.
The one I selected, just as a test, was "ShellyAllegro BT". This
particular one may, or may not be on your computer, but you will
probably have something suitable. And there are probably going to be a
lot still on your installation CD that have not been downloaded into
your computer.
Open MSPaint.
Set the Attributes width and length for this to something suitable. I
used 0.5 inch x 0.5 inch.
Click on the Text toolbutton.
Drag it onto the paint area.
Display the Font tool Bar (View + Text ToolBar) and select the
Fontstyle you have chosen.
Select a suitable font size (I used 20).
I also selected Bold.
Click within the Text area and Type the letter.
Using the Select toolbutton, draw a selection around the letter.
Cut it.
Paste it back into the window. Place the cursor on the letter. When
the cursor changes to a +, drag the letter to position it where you
want it.
Save the new bitmap as a .bmp file.
Now you can open your Access database and using the Picture property
of the command button, set this bitmap as the new picture.
An alternative method to the above is to simply type the letter in a
Word document.
Select it. Cut it.
Then open Paint and paste it into the bitmap area.
You can reposition it by dragging it, as above.
Have fun.
