Change Text Box Color for Birth Month in MS Access

In this Microsoft Access tutorial, I will show you how to use conditional formatting to highlight a customer's birthday field on a form during their birth month. We will explore using the Month function and building expressions, highlighting any important month-specific records, without the need for additional queries or complex setups.

R Isaac from Cheney, Washington (a 10-year student) asks: I have developed an Access database for a local food bank. The director would like the birthday field for each customer in the registration form to be highlighted during their birth month. How can I code this? Should I build a query for the birth month or add conditional formatting to the birthday field to highlight it based on the current month?

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Prerequisites

• Conditional Formatting
• Expression Is
• Year Month Day

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