Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Part I: Access Building Blocks

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7. Select the Description text box control.


8. Select Paste from the Home ribbon’s Clipboard group to attach the label control to the
   text-box control.

Another way to attach a label to a control is to click the informational icon next to the label, shown

in Figure 7.24. This informational icon lets you know that this label is unassociated with a control.

Select the Associate Label with a Control command from the menu, and then select the control you

want to associate the label with.

FIGURE 7.24

Associating a label with a control

Changing a control’s type

In Figure 7.25, the Complete control is a check box. Although there are times you may want to

use a check box to display a Boolean (yes/no) data type, there are other ways to display the value,

such as a toggle button. A toggle button is raised if it’s true and depressed (or at least very

unhappy) if it’s false.

Use these steps to turn a check box into a toggle button:

1. Select the Complete label control (just the label control, not the check box).


2. Press Delete to delete the label control because it isn’t needed.


3. Right-click the Complete check box, and choose Change To ➪ Toggle Button from the
   pop-up menu.


4. Resize the toggle button and click inside it to get the blinking cursor; then type After on
   the button as its caption (shown on the right of Figure 7.25).