Need text box as a lable. What is control source?

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I am creating a tab form that began flickering when the mouse ran over the
unattached labels that I had created . It was suggested that I replace the
labels with text boxes. Please help with creating text boxes.
 
Hi,
just open the form in design view and on the toolbar at the left chose a
textbox control.
The control source of a textbox is the where the textbox gets its data. If
the textbox is unbound then you can leave this blank, if you want to have it
bound to a table field then select the appropriate field in the drop down if
your form is based on this table.
HTH
Good luck
 
I must not be making my problem clear.
I need an unbound text box that I can use in place of a label that is not a
field in my tab form.
When I leave the control source of the text box clear the label is clear.
If I type anything in the name of the text box I get an error message about
their being no field.
Should I just ignore the error message. Also, I don't want to label with
the text box.
 
Once you change the label to a textbox you can put a 'caption' in the
control source.
eg "Some Text" without the quotes.
 
When I do as you suggested, and try to delete the txtbox label, the whole
field is deleted. I don't know why I am having so much trouble with this.
I need this to complete a form I am designing for work.
Help is appreciated.
 
As I understand it, you have a stand alone label (not attached to a
textbox). You want to change this to a textbox (right-click change to,
textbox).

So now, why are you deleting the label?
 
I have an unbound textbox that I want to be able to type text in the text box
and delete the label of the text box.
I may have found a solution. I have typed the text in the properties Default
Value and deleted the label of the text box.
When I tried to type text into the text box Control Source I kept getting
error #Name.
Since I need this for work I hope my solution works. Please let me know if
there is a way to type my own text in the Control Source of the the text box
and delete the text box label.
Joan
 
I think you've kind of lost me. Your original message said..

"I am creating a tab form that began flickering when the mouse ran over the
unattached labels that I had created . It was suggested that I replace the
labels with text boxes. Please help with creating text boxes"

So you were going to create textboxes (or change the labels to textboxes) so
that the flickering would stop - correct?

It sounds like you have it working by putting the static text you want to
display in the default property for the textbox that is unbound.

If it works, and the flickering has stopped, great.

Sorry you couldn't get the other to work, but what you've now described
sounds fine. You can modify the properties of the textbox so it looks like
a label (i.e. flat, locked, etc.)
 
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