Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Chapter 7: Creating Basic Access Forms

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FIGURE 7.26

Change an object’s properties with the Property Sheet.

Selected control Tabs

Properties

Getting acquainted with the Property Sheet

With the Property Sheet displayed, click on any control in Design view to display the properties

for that control. Select multiple controls to display similar properties for the selected controls. The

vertical scroll bar lets you move between various properties.

The Property Sheet has an All tab that lets you see all the properties for a control. Or you can

choose another tab to limit the view to a specific group of properties. The specific tabs and groups

of properties are as follows:

l (^) Format: These properties determine how a label or value looks: font, size, color, special
effects, borders, and scroll bars.
l (^) Data: These properties affect how a value is displayed and the data source it is bound to:
control source, input masks, validation, default value, and other data-type properties.
l (^) Event: Event properties are named events, such as clicking a mouse button, adding a
record, pressing a key for which you can define a response (in the form of a call to a
macro or a VBA procedure), and so on.
l Other: Other properties show additional characteristics of the control, such as the name
of the control or the description that displays in the status bar.
Cross-Reference
The number of properties available in Access has increased greatly since early versions of Access. The most
important properties are described in various chapters of this book. For a discussion of Event properties and
Event procedures, see Part II.