Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Part III: More-Advanced Access Techniques

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buttons, option buttons, check boxes, combo boxes, list boxes, and other controls. Although this

chapter doesn’t discuss every type of Access form control in detail, it documents the most com-

monly used controls found in Access applications.

Each control on an Access form has a set of properties that determines the control’s appearance

and behavior. In Design view, you manipulate a control’s property settings through its Property

Sheet. To display the Property Sheet, right-click the object and click Properties in the pop-up

menu, select the object and click the Properties button in the ribbon, or press the F4 key with the

object selected. Once the Property Sheet is open, clicking any other control in the form displays

the selected control’s property settings. Figure 19.1 shows the Property Sheet for the command

button named cmdNew on the Customers form (frmCustomers) in the Chapter19.accdb

application.

FIGURE 19.1

The Property Sheet for the cmdNew command button

The form itself also has its own set of properties. If you display the Property Sheet in Design view

before selecting a specific control, Access lists the form’s properties in the Property Sheet, as indi-

cated by the caption “Form” in the Property Sheet’s title bar (see Figure 19.2). To display the

form’s properties in the Property Sheet after first displaying a control’s properties, click a com-

pletely blank area in the form design window (outside the form’s defined border).