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Changing the color of a subform's column


I want to change the color of a single column in a Form's SubForm. Form with subForm:

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The Default View is Datasheet and should stay that way. For some reason I am struggling at assigning the color. If I select the whole column in Layout view and go to Format > Shape Fill the whole Background gets filled instead of what is intended.

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I also tried changing the textBox and comboBox's fill color in the Design view:

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Does nothing. Hope you could help me!


Solution

  • Color property settings are ignored in Datasheet view.

    However, Conditional Formatting can impact display color of textbox and combobox in Single/Continuous/Datasheet/Layout views.

    Continuous view can be arranged to look like Datasheet, although Datasheet sort/filter features would not be available.