Transparent background color

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I need to set the background color of the detail section on a form to
transparent but can't find the value for transparent. Any help or other
ideas on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated!

Jerry
 
JWS315 said:
I need to set the background color of the detail section on a form to
transparent but can't find the value for transparent. Any help or
other ideas on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated!

Jerry
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What would you expect to see if the section was transparent?
 
Why do you need a tranperent color, you usaully use it when you dont want the
color to cover other items underneath it, which doesnt happen in access, you
can always chenge it to white, but I recomend stying with the gray default.
 
Rick,

I use a form that is kept open while other forms are used and I want to find
a way to not see the form. I cannot hide the form because there are fields
on the form that I use and update based on user input, all the items on the
form are not visible so the user never sees the individual items. I also have
an ActiveX control on the form that is used to track and store data in a
license file.

I would expect to "see" whatever form is open or whatever the user's
settings are for their environment.

Thanks
Jerry
 
So make the form invisible
Forms![FormName].visible=False, that way you wont see the form but you can
still refer to the fields in it to retrieve the values in it.

At any time you can make the form visible again using
Forms![FormName].visible=True
 
JWS315 said:
Rick,

I use a form that is kept open while other forms are used and I want
to find a way to not see the form. I cannot hide the form because
there are fields on the form that I use and update based on user
input, [snip]
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Making a form invisible does not hinder your ability to do any of those
things.
 
Thanks - will give this a try!

Rick Brandt said:
JWS315 said:
Rick,

I use a form that is kept open while other forms are used and I want
to find a way to not see the form. I cannot hide the form because
there are fields on the form that I use and update based on user
input, [snip]
Click to expand...

Making a form invisible does not hinder your ability to do any of those
things.
Click to expand...
 
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